'Silence of the Lambs' director Jonathan Demme to adapt Stephen King's '11/22/63'

Stephen King is in high demand these days, unless of course you're Universal Pictures.

The novel will be release Nov. 8.

On the heels of the news that "Harry Potter" director David Yates and scribe Steve Kloves are in talks for a multi-film adaptation of "The Stand" and A&E is producing a mini-series based on the author's "Bag of Bones," director Jonathan Demme has picked up the movie rights to "11/22/63," King's latest and as-yet-unreleased novel.

Demme won the 1992 Academy Award for directing "The Silence of the Lambs." His resume also includes "Philadelphia," which earned actor Tom Hanks his first Academy Award win, as well as "Married to the Mob" and "Swimming to Cambodia."

According to Deadline, Demme is set to write, produce and director the adaptation of "11/22/63," which follows a teacher who travels back in  time to stop the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The novel will be released Nov. 8.

King's website includes the follow summary:

Jake Epping is a 35-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students--a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane--and insanely possible--mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life--a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.