Stephen King's The Talisman is Coming to TV

Posted on March 14, 2007

Sci Fi reports that Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television will be producing a tv miniseries from the Stephen King/Peter Straub novel, The Talisman, which will be aired on TNT in 2008. The miniseries will most likely then become a regular series which will begin its run in 2009.

Spielberg will executive-produce a six-hour miniseries based on Stephen King and Peter Straub's best-selling supernatural thriller The Talisman for the summer of 2008, with DreamWorks Television producing. Spielberg, who produced Into the West for TNT, will be joined by his longtime partner Kathleen Kennedy as executive producer, along with Ehren Kruger (Skeleton Key, The Ring), who will adapt the King/Straub novel. Darryl Frank, who heads up DreamWorks Television, will be co-executive producer, along with Justin Falvey.

The Talisman, which was published in 1984, marked the first collaboration between King and Straub. It tells the story of Jack Sawyer, a boy who goes on a quest through this world and through a parallel world known as "The Territories" on a mission to obtain a mysterious talisman that will save his dying mother's life and that of her "twinner," the Queen of the Territories.

That sounds like a very interesting project. Stephen King has had so many of his books made into movies and series, with varying degrees of success. Let's hope the new project meets the high standards set by the film, The Shawshank Redemption (we love that film) and the current TV series on USA Networks, The Dead Zone.

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