# King's/Straub's Talisman: movie in pre-production **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538 "2004-02-04T20:52:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/1 "2004-02-04T20:52:22Z")
I’m not sure how I feel about this, as The Talisman is one of my all-time favorite books. If the casting goes well, it could be very very good. If not… well, it could be a typical Stephen King movie. Obligatory IMDB link: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384580/) Also, Secret Window is being made into a film with Johnny Depp as Mort. Could also be very good… could be horrible. What do you think? Who would you like to see as Travellin’ Jack? Wolf? Lily? Speedy? Uncle Morgan? I’d like to see an unknown as Jack… we need some fresh kid faces out there. Please don’t let it be a Culkin or Haley Joel Osment (who’s a bit too old for Jack anyway.) Wolf… could be more difficult. He should look like Jeff Goldblum but be 20 years old. Meryl Streep would make a good Lily, or Glenn Close. Speedy should be Scatman Crothers but he’s no longer with us. How about Melvin Van Peebles? Sloat should be a big name, probably… maybe a Harvey Keitel type. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2004, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/2 "2004-02-04T23:49:24Z")
I wonder if Richard Pryor would be up for Speedy. [Jordan Walker Ross](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1391406/) as Jack? As for Wolf, how about Scott Cohen ([Wolf from The 10th Kingdom](http://scottcohen.net/funstuff/Wallpaper/WolfSCGcollage.jpg))? ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/3 "2004-02-05T00:02:36Z")
I always figured Wolf would be a “loomer.” Are there any Andre the Giant replacements out there? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/4 "2004-02-05T02:09:55Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > Are there any Andre the Giant replacements out there? Michael Clarke Duncan comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/5 "2004-02-05T02:28:56Z")
> [@BraheSilver](#): > > I always figured Wolf would be a “loomer.” Are there any Andre the Giant replacements out there? OK, I’ll bite. What’s a “loomer”? ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/6 "2004-02-05T02:40:59Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > …If the casting goes well, it could be very very good. If not… well, it could be a typical Stephen King movie… There is a chance that it will be ok as long as King hands it over to a competent director and then butts the hell out. King is a decent writer, but an absolutely crappy director. Consider movies based on King stories that turned out pretty darn good (Stand by Me, The Shawshank Redemption or The Green Mile come to mind). Good movies because (IMHO) King stayed out of the way. On the other hand, I can’t think of a single movie that he has been directly involved in that didn’t suck. I just don’t think that he gets the visual medium ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/7 "2004-02-05T02:42:50Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > OK, I’ll bite. What’s a “loomer”? My guess is it is either some big dude that looms over you or the apprentice in charge of threading the weaver’s loom. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/8 "2004-02-05T02:44:46Z")
As a total aside, I have always wanted to see this movie made but really really wanted it to be animated. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/9 "2004-02-05T02:44:53Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > OK, I’ll bite. What’s a “loomer”? He looms. Looming over people. Being vaguely threatening by dint of size. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/10 "2004-02-05T03:04:01Z")
> [@Binarydrone](#): > > As a total aside, I have always wanted to see this movie made but really really wanted it to be animated. Same here but I think having this as an animated feature would kill it. It would have to overcome the “animated movies are for _kids_” mentality. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/11 "2004-02-05T03:15:01Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > Same here but I think having this as an animated feature would kill it. It would have to overcome the “animated movies are for _kids_” mentality. _SIGH_, I know. I reallu wish that people would get over that one. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kings-straubs-talisman-movie-in-pre-production/227538/12 "2004-02-05T03:26:04Z")
> [@Jeff Olsen](#): > > Same here but I think having this as an animated feature would kill it. It would have to overcome the “animated movies are for _kids_” mentality. That’d make it interesting when Jack takes Wolf to see _The Hobbit_. Or would they update it and show the live-action LOTR over animation? 😉