Iconic director/producer Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks TV along with TNT will be producing a six-hour adaptation of the Stephen King-Peter Straub adventure novel “The Talisman,” according to Variety.
This exclusive event is set for a summer 2008 debut.
“The Talisman” is about a man’s perilous journey to find a mysterious talisman that holds the key to saving his mother’s life. His travels take him into a parallel universe in which he is forced to battle demonic forces.
This is a project that Spielberg has been trying to get going for several years now. ” The Talisman” had been set up as a DreamWorks feature with Ed Zwick last attached to direct, but that effort was scrapped over budget and creative concerns. Prior to that, the project had been developed as a four-hour miniseries for ABC.
I’ve read “The Talisman” and I’m glad to see that it will be getting the mini-series treatment rather than the big screen.
There’s way too much story to try to cram it into 2 hours.
After his recent comment about TV programming, I don’t know how I feel about Spielberg doing it.