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It’s too many big entertainment names to fit in one headline: Steven Spielberg, Matt and Ross Duffer, and the Duffers’
Stranger Things colleague Curtis Gwinn are at work on a series adaptation of
The Talisman, the novel by Stephen King and Peter Straub. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, Spielberg has been trying for years to develop this story. In 1982, before the book was even published, he acquired the screen rights in perpetuity. At long last, the adaptation is underway.
Curtis Gwinn, who was a writer and co-executive producer on
Stranger Things, will be writer and showrunner for the series, which is about a boy on a quest to save his dying mother. Here’s the novel’s summary: