After essentially creating a show made of pure Spielberg-King fanfic, Matt and Ross Duffer will go from honoring their heroes to working with them.
A project nearly 40 years in the making, the Duffers will team up with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television for a Netflix series (awkward) based on Stephen King’s The Talisman. This is huge for Talisman fans, who long thought the book far too sprawling to ever be a movie, but also for Spielberg himself who has held the rights to the novel since 1982 when they were purchased for him by Universal. For years he’s talked about it as a film, but with the Duffers and Netflix on board, the 900-plus page book will be the series the source material requires. Curtis Gwinn, a writer and producer on Stranger Things as well as shows like The Walking Dead and The Leftovers, will be the showrunner.
https://gizmodo.com/the-talisman-may-be-stephen-kings-next-movie-courtesy-1825015876
The Talisman is the perfect project for this specific set of people, following a 12-year-0ld boy who enters the Territories, a parallel universe that is a “flip” of the real world, all in search of a crystal called the Talisman in an attempt to save his dying mother. We got a kid on an adventure, we got parallel dimensions, we’ve got goshdamn werewolves. Inject it into my veins with a side of childhood malaise and probably a lot of wide-eyed tears. The book, co-written by King and Peter Straub, also has a sequel called Black House wherein our boy hero grows into a boy detective. Season two, it’s right there.
https://gizmodo.com/all-56-single-stephen-king-movies-and-tv-series-adaptat-1783887752
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