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Let’s see: brave child, alternative supernatural dimension, epic journey. Yes, all of this is adding up here. According to Hollywood news reporter, Steven Spielberg is uniting powerful and mystical forces with Weird stuff creators Matt and Ross Duffer to develop a TV series based on one of the few (kidding; there are still dozens of) Stephen King’s works yet to be adapted: 1984 The talisman, which King wrote alongside Peter Straub. Weird stuff Former student Curtis Gwinn is reportedly going to write and present the series, which will be produced by Netflix, Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Paramount Television Studios.
Per THR, Spielberg bought the rights to the film to The talisman two years before the fantasy novel was published, but was never able to turn it into a film as planned. The book follows the paranormal adventures of Jack Sawyer, a 12-year-old boy tasked with finding a crystal known as the Talisman to save his mother from cancer. To do this, he must travel through the United States and the “Territories”, a universe parallel to ours, populated by “twins” from everyone on the plain, the old original flavor of the Earth. And if that wasn’t enough to convince Weird stuff fans, this show is probably for them: there are also werewolves.