BloodyDisgusting reports Matt and Ross Duffer, creators of Netflix’s hit series Stranger Things, will join forces with Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television to adapt The Talisman. This dark fantasy novel was first published in 1984 as collaboration between two horror writers: Stephen King and Peter Straub. It follows a twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer on a quest to save his mother from cancer by finding a magical crystal – a talisman, if you will. Jack’s journey takes him not only across the US but also its fantastical echo called the Territories. King and Straub collaborated on a sequel as well, titled Black House, published in 2001.
Spielberg originally bought the rights for the adaptation of the novel back in the 1980s. Now, it looks as if the project might finally come to fruition, in a form of a TV series. The Talisman will be produced jointly by Netflix, Paramount Television Studios, as well as by the aforementioned Amblin Television. Curtis Gwinn, who previously worked as a supervising producer on shows ranging from Narcos to The Walking Dead, will be the showrunner.
