{"id":739,"date":"2017-03-18T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T23:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=739"},"modified":"2017-03-18T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T23:32:17","slug":"james-franco-to-narrate-audiobook-of-stephen-kings-the-dead-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"James Franco to narrate audiobook of Stephen King\u2019s The Dead Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 1979, Stephen King published The Dead Zone, sci-fi thriller about a man who emerges from a long coma with the sudden power of clairvoyance. Since then, the classic novel has been turned into a 1983 film starring Christopher Walken and 2002 television series.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the very first time, The Dead Zone will also be available to King fans as an audiobook. What\u2019s more, it\u2019s being narrated by James Franco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s one of the most pleasurable authors to read or listen to,\u201d Franco told Entertainment Weekly of the legendary author. \u201cHe just guides you along so well. Even though we\u2019re from different generations all his influences and things he references and subjects he\u2019s interested in seem to be all the things I\u2019m interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>King, too, is excited about the forthcoming project and Franco\u2019s casting, saying, \u201cI knew that he would perfectly capture the vibe and voice of The Dead Zone.\u201d The Oscar-nominated actor is no stranger to King\u2019s work, as he appeared in 11.22.63, a 2016 limited series based on King\u2019s time traveling book of the same name.<\/p>\n<p>The Dead Zone audiobook will be available come April 25th via Simon and Schuster Audio. In the meantime, subscribe to The Losers\u2019 Club, our Stephen King podcast, for updates and a bi-monthly dissection into King\u2019s body of work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\">Sources URL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1979, Stephen King published The Dead Zone, sci-fi thriller about a man who emerges from a long coma with the sudden power of clairvoyance. Since then, the classic novel has been turned into a 1983 film starring Christopher Walken and 2002 television series. Now, for the very first time, The Dead Zone will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}