Published back in 1984, Stephen King and Peter Straub’s The Talisman the two authors discovered awe-inspiring embrace of their more Tolkienian aspects – elements that King would continue to develop during his time Dark Tower books, which captured his own collaboration and Straub’s own. Sprawling, imaginative, and featuring a King more active tween heroes, The Talisman has been a setting for potential modifiers for years – especially in hands Steven Spielberg, who bought the rights to the book before it was even published back in the 1980s, and who has spent decades trying to cast the pieces for his Amblin Entertainment to get on screen.
That project – not for the first time – seems to be one step closer to a result, as Deadline reports that Matt and Ross Duffer, the King of Netflix non-stopand-Spielberg-crouching Strange things– has signed up to change the book for TV. The Duffer Bros. producing with Spielberg, though Strange things‘Curtis Gwinn who handles the truly amazing duties of the series.
And, again: We will believe it when we see it. The Talisman is a large book, sending young Jack Sawyer across America and his own shadow, The Territories, finds title artifact, which may be able to cure his sick mother. (And also the queen of the mysterious Lands; he is a “parallel world couple” as a thing.) There is a reason this particular building has resisted change for years, even though the roleGame Of Thrones landscape seems to be such a good time to get a book with this kind of vast expanse off the last ground.