J.J. Abrams to Bring Bestselling Stephen King Novel to Television

Stephen King’s bestselling novel 11/26/63 may be heading to the small screen.

The "Star Trek: Into Darkness" director is reportedly in talks to executive produce a television adaptation of the novel. Bad Robot Production Company (Abram’s studio) and Warner Bros. Television are working to adapt the 2011 novel.

11/26/63is described as follows:

“President John F. Kennedy is dead. Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town…. Jake’s friend Al, owner of a local diner, enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. How? By stepping through a portal in the diner’s storeroom, and into the era of Ike and Elvis, of big American cars, sock hops, and cigarette smoke… All turns in the road lead to a troubled longer named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten.”

While it may seem like squeezing a story of a man attempting to stop the murder of John F. Kennedy into a television series may be pressing it when it comes to season length, the story goes back five years before the actual murder. It focuses on Jake's adjustment to a new life in the past, as he tracks down Lee Harvey Oswald.

This summer will also see “Under the Dome,” another Stephen King story that might strike one as more suited to a movie, debuting on CBS. It tells deals with an invisible force field that falls upon a northeastern American town.