November 1963, from Roland Joffe, is the latest film to explore the JFK assassination on screen. Building up quite a cast too.
A new film exploring the assassination of President John F Kennedy is heading into production over the next month or so. It’s going by the title of November 1963, and it’s assembled quite a cast.
Already known to be on board were John Travolta, Mandy Patinkin and Dermot Mulroney. Now we learn that Robert Carlyle is going to be playing Lee Harvey Oswald, and Yellowstone’s Jefferson White has been cast as Jack Ruby. The movie is set to film in Canada, and Roland Joffe is directing. Nicki Celozzi has penned the script.
The perspective this time has been given by Sam Giancana, a mob boss who was well connected with the Kennedy family. Nicki Celozzi is his nephew, and spent time with Giancana as his family’s involvement with the events of the JFK assassination were discussed.
Podcast: JFK (1991) and 10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
The highest profile screen exploration of the Kennedy assassination to date was in Oliver Stone’s remarkable film JFK, released in 1991. A dizzying three-hour exploration of the murder – longer if you opt for the sinister extended cut – it was also followed by two lower profile projects pretty much immediately after. Michelle Pfeiffer picked up an Oscar nomination for Love Field, a film whose distribution was damaged by its parent company’s financial woes. Then, Danny Aiello played Jack Ruby in, well, Ruby, a movie that was marketed under the line ‘the man who killed the man who killed JFK’. It was very much in JFK’s slipstream.
That said, the story of the Kennedy assassination has been dissected many times since, not least recently by filmmaker Rob Reiner in a podcast series. Quite what revelations November 1963 will hold remains to be seen, but thus far, it appears to be assembling quite a cast.
Expect a release in 2026.
