# Stephen King's Talisman coming to TNT!\* **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055 "2006-12-06T13:05:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/1 "2006-12-06T13:05:23Z")
[WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!](http://www.tv.com/story/7412.html) I just finished rereading this. I kept expecting Roland to pop up. \*Yes, I know it was a collaboration with Peter Straub. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/2 "2006-12-06T13:11:48Z")
Wolf! I hope they get it right. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/3 "2006-12-06T13:35:23Z")
I love King, but I was very disappointed with the Nightmares + Dreamscapes mini-series that TNT did. Both in choice of work and execution of translating the stories onto TV. The last thing I’ve even liked translated onto film for King was the first half of Dreamcatcher, which fell apart completely in the second half. And I guess before that was the Green Mile, which was a wholly wonderful movie. And I actually did enjoy Storm of the Century, even though it was too drawn out. I’m curious to know dear OP, what contemporary work of King’s have you seen that you liked on TV or film? ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/4 "2006-12-06T13:41:42Z")
I liked _The Stand_ and _Shawshank Redemption_ and _Misery_. _IT_ didn’t translate well, probably because there’s no way they could make the monster as scary as what your imagination dreamed up, although Tim Curry did chew the scenery delightfully. I guess I like the more psychological horrors, rather than the ones with out and out monsters. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/5 "2006-12-06T14:08:40Z")
Besides those mentioned, the adaptations of **The Dead Zone** and **Stand By Me** were excellent. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/6 "2006-12-06T14:09:44Z")
Feh. I’ll believe it when I see it. Not to rain on anyone’s parade, but this stupid movie’s been announced so many times, just to fall apart a few months later, that I’m not about to start jumping up and down on chairs this time. Once bitten, twice shy and all that. I’m also not happy with many of the changes I’ve heard rumors about – things like Jack _starting_ his journey with The Talisman (in Speedy’s guitar case, natch), eliminating the Sunshine Home & The Blasted Lands, changing Wolf into a girl, etc. But since they’re going miniseries instead of feature film, hopefully they’ll start from scratch and make a semi-faithful adaptation a la **The Stand.** And it seems that Michael J. Fox is rumored to star in this movie…but as what role?? He can’t POSSIBLY play Jack Sawyer, no way! Wolf, I could buy…maybe. Who else is there? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/7 "2006-12-06T14:13:29Z")
[QUOTE=KGS] And it seems that Michael J. Fox is rumored to star in this movie…but as what role?? He can’t POSSIBLY play Jack Sawyer, no way! Wolf, I could buy…maybe. Who else is there? [/QUOTE] The article says “at one point”, which makes me think we’ve successfully dodged the bullet. ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/8 "2006-12-06T15:40:39Z")
Please, please, pleasepleaseplease _please_, let this not suck. Please. It’s my favorite King book. Please, TNT, don’t screw it up. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/9 "2006-12-06T15:43:35Z")
This is my favorite book - I have loved it since I read it (although the first few pages were really boring). I did NOT enjoy The Black House. If I send DVD-Rs to someone can they burn this movie for me? We don’t get TNT up here and I will be SO SAD to miss it. Please? ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/10 "2006-12-06T15:44:21Z")
As I recall, it’s a fairly complicated story, with a lot of traveling both within and between dimensions, so it looks like a hard story to adapt. I wish them luck, though. I hope they don’t get CG-happy. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/11 "2006-12-06T23:05:00Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] Please. It’s my favorite King book. Please, TNT, don’t screw it up. [/QUOTE] I’m hoping a six hour mini-series will do it some justice. _The Stand_ was eight hours, and hit most of the major points. _The Talisman_ has only one major character, Jack. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2006, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/12 "2006-12-06T23:10:06Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] If I send DVD-Rs to someone can they burn this movie for me? We don’t get TNT up here and I will be SO SAD to miss it. Please? [/QUOTE] OK, but since it is not airing until the summer of 2008, you have time to hand carry them here. ---
**Author:** ![sneezy5660](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@sneezy5660](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sneezy5660)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/13 "2006-12-07T04:32:58Z")
Teeny hijack: my favorite line from the book is, I believe, when Rev. Gardiner was trying to get Elroy to shoot Speedy: “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot, you Ethiopian jug fucker!”. Cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/14 "2006-12-07T05:10:39Z")
> [@](#): > > Please, please, pleasepleaseplease please, let this not suck. Not sucking would require the movie to be far better than the source material. God, that novel was a waste of time. I don’t know how much Peter Straub contributed, but there was definitely a lot of crap from King, who writes a good novel about every third try. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/15 "2006-12-07T05:13:14Z")
[QUOTE=Draelin] Please, please, pleasepleaseplease _please_, let this not suck. Please. It’s my favorite King book. Please, TNT, don’t screw it up. [/QUOTE] Ditto. Every time I hear CCR’s _Run Through the Jungle_, I think of Wolf. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2006, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stephen-kings-talisman-coming-to-tnt/383055/16 "2006-12-07T12:49:09Z")
[Good news](http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=4627a4a1-680a-42f9-a248-8c98fa7f0533&entry=index) Steven Spielberg is going to co-produce.