TNT, DreamWorks and Steven Spielberg to make "The Talisman"

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Source: TNT

TNT, Dreamworks Television and Steven Spielberg will team to make a six-hour miniseries based on the Stephen King supernatural thriller The Talisman.

The series will tell the story of Jack Sawyer, a boy who goes on a quest through this world and through a parallel world known as "The Territories" on a mission to obtain a mysterious talisman that will save his dying mother's life and that of her "twinner," the Queen of the Territories.

Spielberg will executive produce the series, which should launch in the summer of 2008.

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