Stranger Things) are teaming up to finally adapt Stephen King and Peter Straub’s 1984 novel The Talisman, which Spielberg has been trying to get off the ground for decades. Spielberg has been working on a possible adaptation since 1982, when he got the screen rights, two years before the book was published. The latest iteration of the project would be a series, which Matt and Ross Duffer would executive produce for Netflix through Monkey Massacre Productions, along with Spielberg’s Amblin Television and Paramount Television Studios. Curtis Glen would be the writer and showrunner. King will also produce, as well as Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey