Stephen King’s 11/22/63 series adds Chris Cooper, Cherry Jones & more

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

Yesterday we brought you the news that DRACULA UNTOLD's Sarah Gadon was set to star alongside James Franco in the Hulu original series “11/22/63,” which is coming at us from JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot and is based on Stephen King’s best-selling time-travel novel about the Kennedy assassination. Now Variety is reporting that the production has added several principal characters to the growing cast, including AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY's Chris Cooper and Tony award winner Cherry Jones.

11/22/63 follows…

Jake Epping (Franco), an unassuming divorced English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that leads to 9/9/1958 and goes on a quest to try and prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But his mission is threatened by Lee Harvey Oswald, his falling in love and a past that doesn’t want to be changed.

The “11/22/63″ cast also includes Daniel Webber as Lee Harvey Oswald; George MacKay as a bartender who becomes Jake’s ally; Lucy Fry as Lee Harvey Oswald’s Russian wife; and Leon Rippy as a janitor at Epping’s school in 2015.

Kevin Macdonald (THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND) is set to direct and exec produce the first two of the nine-episode event series.