Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment has tapped the Duffer Brothers, and their Stranger Things collaborator Curtis Gwinn, to adapt Stephen King and Peter Straub's 1984 novel The Talisman for TV.
Steven Spielberg & the Duffer Bros. developing Stephen King s The Talisman
March 5, 2021 by:
Another day, another adaptation of a Stephen King novel. THR has reported that Steven Spielberg and the Duffer Brothers are developing an adaptation of
The Talisman, a novel which King co-wrote with Peter Straub. Spielberg has actually had the screen rights for
The Talisman for close to forty years, and has been trying to get a feature-film version of the story off the ground all that time, but this time around,
The Talisman will be a TV series for Netflix.
The Talisman tells of a 12-year old boy named Jack Sawyer who sets off on an epic road-trip quest in order to save his dying mother’s life. He is in search of the Talisman, a powerful relic that can not only heal his mother but, as he learns, save the world. Sawyer’s journey criss-crosses two realities: the America we know and its dangerous, fantasy-world twin, The Territories. Matt and Ross Duffer will executive produce th
Considering “imagine if E.T. were written by Stephen King” may be the most concise way to describe
Stranger Things, it makes perfect sense that the creators of that hit Netflix show will oversee the adaptation.
Published in 1984,
The Talisman tells the story of a boy who travels in and out of an alternate dimension in an effort to save his mother. He must face twinners – parallel individuals on flipsides of a universal split – living in a world populated by werewolves and gunslingers. (Yeah, that story idea should sound vaguely familiar to King fans.)
This project has been a long time coming. So long, in fact, that the journey began before the book was even published. Spielberg acquired the screen rights to the novel in 1982, two years before it was published. The iconic filmmaker then spent 35 years trying to develop it into a film. A little over a decade ago, he switched gears and turned to the small screen, trying to turn
Washington [US], March 6 (ANI): Popular American author Stephen King's novels have been adapted into scores of famous films and TV shows. And now one of his most beloved books 'The Talisman' yet to be adapted is finally coming to the screen in the form of a series.