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From last night’s 30 Rock cold open: the trailer for Martin Luther King Day, a thankfully non-existent ensemble romantic-comedy that stars Andy Samberg, Emma Stone, Hugh Grant, Nick Cannon, R2-D2, Mankind and more. So alarmingly accurate, septuagenarian director Garry Marshall will hopefully think he actually made this and move on to some other holiday film he can stuff Hector Elizondo into.

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While projects based around classic Stephen King properties like The Stand, The Dark Tower, and Carrie have been making gradual moves forward, King’s latest catalog entries have stood aside like wallflowers, unable to even catch the attention of a desperate network television miniseries. Until today, that is, when a passing Jonathan Demme noticed King’s upcoming 11/22/63 sitting there all alone and decided, what the hell, let’s make a movie out this goddammer. Odd that he would pick this 1000-page novel, though, because boy does this thing ever sound like the most bizarre series PBS would ever conceive of to teach kids about history.

If you couldn’t tell from the title, 11/22/63 deals with the Kennedy assassination, but only in the most obtuse way imaginable. The story follows an English teacher who discovers a time portal and, figuring killing Hitler is too obvious, sets about stopping President Kennedy’s untimely death. And while he’s back there, the teacher also decides he might as well meet Elvis and some other celebrities, and meet a nice librarian he can marry while he’s at it. Demme, whose last narrative feature was 2008′s Rachel Getting Married, will write, direct, and produce. The book itself, meanwhile, will in November reveal the butterfly effect consequences we can expect when one saves JFK. The gaping hole that will leave in Kevin Costner’s career, for example. Probably other things, too.

A mockumentary remake of a documentary? Why, that’s just backwards enough an idea that we should probably do it! And so we shall, with director Seth Gordon just revealing New Line’s plans to remake his popular 2007 actual documentary, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, into a fake documentary. Because that makes sense. The studio have owned remake rights for several years, but this is the first news of the new shape the project has taken–a direction apparently inspired by Gordon’s work in television. The director told The Playlist:

“There’s a few different avenues [the film can take]. I’ve done some work on ‘Modern Family’ and ‘The Office’ and have worked in this doc style, and so that inspired me to say, instead of doing a traditional narrative feature script, what if we did the remake in the doc style? What doors what that open? What opportunities? What additional story could we tell? And that’s essentially the approach we took.”

Finally, a film to inhabit the nebulous intersection of Christopher Guest films, Michael Haneke’s Funny Games remake, and a Dateline NBC dramatization.

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MGM’s post-bankruptcy philosophy of betting it all entirely on sequels and remakes (because their Vin Diesel-the-Robot movie might as well be a remake) continues today with the revelation that the studio has hired Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to slap a new coat of pig blood on Carrie and write a reboot of the Stephen King classic.

Far from undefiled, Carrie has already been adapted into a now-classic 1976 Brian De Palma film and a TV movie–meant to be the pilot to a new series wherein we’d follow Carrie around on her telekinetic adventures–and spawned a 1999 sequel (The Rage: Carrie 2) that was both a critical and commercial failure. Aguirre-Sacasa–hired partially because he’s already adapted the author, having written a graphic novel of The Stand, and partially because he just got some press for re-writing Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark–is said to be writing a version closer to the original novel, with a purer vision of a girl’s first telekinetic period.

As for casting? It’s early, but Stephen King already has an idea: how about Lindsay Lohan? And, hey, while we’re at it, why not with David Lynch/Cronenberg behind the lens? The author joked(?) to Entertainment Weekly:

I’ve heard rumblings about a Carrie remake, as I have about The Stand and It. Who knows if it will happen? The real question is why, when the original was so good? I mean, not Casablanca, or anything, but a really good horror-suspense film, much better than the book. Piper Laurie really got her teeth into the bad-mom thing. Although Lindsay Lohan as Carrie White… hmmm. It would certainly be fun to cast. I guess I could get behind it if they turned the project over to one of the Davids: Lynch or Cronenberg.

Sorry, Stephen King, but I’m smelling Kristen Stewart and 3-D, PG-13 pig blood from whoever is doing Final Destination 5. David Lynch should sure do something with unexpected menstruation, though. Any ideas, David Lynch?