After essentially creating a show made out of pure Spielberg-King fanfic, Matt and Ross Duffer will from honoring your heroes to work with them.
A nearly 40-year project under construction, the Duffers will join Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television for a Netflix series (clumsy) based on Stephen King’s The talisman. This is huge for Luck charm fans, who for a long time considered the book too long to be a film, but also for Spielberg himself who has owned the rights to the novel since 1982, when Universal bought it for him. For years, he talked about it like a movie, but with Duffers and Netflix on board, the 900-page book will be the series that the source material requires. Curtis Gwinn, a writer and producer in Weird stuff as well as programs like Living Dead and The leftovers, will be the showrunner.
The talisman it is the perfect project for this specific group of people, accompanying a 12-year-old boy who enters the Territories, a parallel universe that is a “turning point” in the real world, all in search of a crystal called Talisman in an attempt to save his mother dying. We have a child on an adventure, we have parallel dimensions, we have a whore who gave birth werewolves. Inject into my veins with a side of child malaise and probably a lot of wide-eyed tears. The book, co-written by King and Peter Straub, also has a sequence called Black House where our hero boy turns into a detective boy. Second season, it’s right there.
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