Steven Spielberg & the Duffer Bros. developing Stephen King's The Talisman March 5, 2021 by: Another day, another adaptation of a Stephen King novel. THR has reported that Steven Spielberg and the Duffer Brothers are developing an adaptation of The Talisman, a novel which King co-wrote with Peter Straub. Spielberg has actually had the screen rights for The Talisman for close to forty years, and has been trying to get a feature-film version of the story off the ground all that time, but this time around, The Talisman will be a TV series for Netflix. The Talisman tells of a "12-year old boy named Jack Sawyer who sets off on an epic road-trip quest in order to save his dying mother’s life. He is in search of the Talisman, a powerful relic that can not only heal his mother but, as he learns, save the world. Sawyer’s journey criss-crosses two realities: the America we know and its dangerous, fantasy-world twin, The Territories." Matt and Ross Duffer will executive produce through their Monkey Massacre Productions banner while Steven Spielberg will executive produce via Amblin Television.