The Talisman

We’ve been blessed with many fantastic collaborations over the years, but there’s still one that I’m dying to see: Steven Spielberg and Stephen King. The former has owned the rights to the latter’s fantasy-horror novel The Talisman for over three decades, and the highly-desirable (and super ambitious) Beard x King collab has almost come to fruition a few times — before ultimately hitting one roadblock or another. But according to Spielberg himself, his adaptation of The Talisman is still very much in the works.

The Dark Tower wasn’t just a huge disappointment at the box office; it was also a major bummer for the longtime Stephen King fans who had waited years to see the author’s fantasy epic come to life. It may be many more years before anyone attempts to adapt it again, but in the meantime, it looks like New Mutants director and King mega-fan Josh Boone is working on giving us the next best thing.