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Although he's on horror fans' radars right now for his in-the-works film adaptations of Stephen King's The Stand, Revival, and King and Peter Straub's The Talisman (as well as a TV series adaptation of Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show), filmmaker Josh Boone's next big screen story comes from the land of Marvel Comics, and although it features future superheroes, the poster for the movie (much like its trailer) promises strong ties to horror.

You can check out the new poster below, which was unveiled on the film's official Facebook page (with the caption "the only thing you have to fear... is yourself") and pays tribute to A Nightmare on Elm Street with the imagery of faces coming through the wall.

In a previous interview with EW, Boone said that The New Mutants movie will be "a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe.

Stephen King has been the rage this past year. Not that it’s too much different than the love he normally gets around the clock, but this past year seemed to have stepped up the King of Horror love in a… Continue Reading →

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Next up on the Stephen King revival train is Amblin’s adaptation of The Talisman, which recently enlisted Fault in Our Stars and New Mutants director Josh Boone. Boone is currently penning the script, but could potentially also direct. “Based on the best-selling novel, the movie follows a boy, who in order to save his mother from certain death, enters a parallel […]...

John Saavedra Oct 16, 2017

Josh Boone will write and potentially direct a big screen adaptation of Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman.

Stephen King and Peter Straub's fan favourite fantasy novel, The Talisman, is being adapted for the big screen by Amblin Entertainment, according to Variety. It was also confirmed that bigtime King fan Josh Boone, who's busy directing X-Men: New Mutants right now, will write the script. There's also a possibility he may direct the film. 

The Talisman tells the story of a 12-year-old boy named Jack Sawyer, who tries to save his mother from dying of cancer by finding a mysterious crystal known as "the Talisman." His quest leads him into The Territories, a sort of parallel universe of our own that's full of dangers. King co-wrote the novel with horror master Peter Straub (Ghost Story) as well as a sequel called Black House. 

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Although he's on horror fans' radars right now for his in-the-works film adaptations of Stephen King's The Stand, Revival, and King and Peter Straub's The Talisman (as well as a TV series adaptation of Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show), filmmaker Josh Boone's next big screen story comes from the land of Marvel Comics. Part superhero story and part horror film, the first trailer for The New Mutants has arrived.

In a previous interview with EW, Boone said that The New Mutants movie will be "a full-fledged horror movie set within the X-Men universe. There are no costumes. There are no supervillains. We’re trying to do something very, very different."

For those unfamiliar, The New Mutants debuted in 1982 before their own comic book series premiered in 1983. Brought to life on the paneled page by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, The New Mutants followed teenage...

Hollywood simply cannot get enough King. In the last couple months we’ve seen not one, not two, but four Stephen King books adapted into films: The Dark Tower, It, Gerald’s Game and 1922. Showing no intention of slowing down, Amblin Entertainment is moving ahead with a film adaptation of The Talisman, a fantasy novel that King cowrote with Peter Straub in 1984. According to Variety, Josh Boone (writer/director of the upcoming X-Men: The New Mutants) has been tapped to pen the script. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy who traverses a parallel universe to find a crystal that can cure his mother’s cancer. Boone is no stranger to King’s written works, he is also attached to...

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Another high-profile Stephen King adaptation is officially in the works. Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) has been hired to write, and possibly direct, an adaptation of the author's 1984 novel The Talisman for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment. This is one of the most significant King novels that hasn't yet been adapted for the big screen. Or the small screen, for that matter. So it's a big deal, assuming it actually gets made.

The news comes courtesy of Variety, who report that legendary producer Frank Marshall will producer The Talisman for Amblin, with Michael Wright on board as an executive producer. Amblin Entertainment had initially been working on adapting the novel, which was co-authored by Stephen King and Peter Straub, as a TV series, but they recently decided to turn it into a movie instead. Per the report, the movie "follows a boy, who in order to save his mother from certain death,...

Josh Boone, the director of Fault of Our Stars and the upcoming New Mutants movie, has signed on to write and possibly direct the big screen adaptation of Stephen King's classic novel The Talisman.

The Talisman is one of my favorite Stephen King books and I'm shocked that it hasn't been adapted into a movie yet! The story follows a boy who enters a parallel world known as the territories on a mission to find a powerful talisman to save his mother from death. 

Frank Marshall is producing the film fro Amblin Entertainment and I hope that Josh Boone is up to the task to take on the challenge of adapting it. This seriously could be an incredible film, but it has to be done right with the right talent on board. Maybe Boone will be able to pull off! Only time will tell. 

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Josh Boone is headed back to King Country. The New Mutants and The Fault in Our Stars director has been tapped by Amblin Entertainment to adapt Stephen King and Peter Straub's dark fantasy novel The Talisman. Variety reports that the filmmaker is currently just set to write the script, but there's a possibility he could eventually move into the director's chair as well The first collaboration between King and fellow famed horror author Straub, The Talisman follows a 12-year-old boy, Jack Sawyer, on a quest to a parallel dimension known as the Territories in order …...

The great Stephen King revival is upon us and next on the list is The Talisman, which has enlisted Fault in Our Stars and New Mutants director Josh Boone to write the Amblin Entertainment’s adaptation, Variety reports. Although he’s currently just set to pen the script, there is a possibility he could eventually direct as well. Based on […]...

It seems like The New Mutants director Josh Boone has been attached to every Stephen King project currently in development. While that is a bit of an overstatement, Boone has been attached at various points to adaptations of King’s The… Continue Reading →

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Sound the Stephen King adaptation alarm: Josh Boone is now attached to write an adaptation of King’s novel The Talisman. Boone has been attached to multiple King adaptations in the past, and now adds King’s 1984 fantasy novel co-authored with Peter Straub to the list. The Talisman movie details await you below! A Long Road to the Screen… […]

The post Josh Boone to Adapt Stephen King’s ‘The Talisman’ appeared first on /Film.

More Stephen King is making its way to the big screen.

Amblin Entertainment has tapped filmmaker Josh Boone to pen the adaptation of The Talisman, the 1984 fantasy novel King co-wrote with Peter Straub, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. 

The novel tells the story of Jack Sawyer, a young boy who must travel from New Hampshire to California to save his mother, who is dying of cancer. Along the way, he learns of an alternate universe known as The Territories, where "twinners" (alternate versions of people from our own world) live. Jack must travel through both the U.S. and the Territories to...

Kirsten Howard Oct 18, 2016

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Many people pine for the one that got away. For a swathe of science fiction fans, their great lost love is Joss Whedon’s space western show Firefly, but for a few of us there was also another sci-fi show cruelly cut off in its prime after just a few great episodes in the 00s – and that show is The Lost Room.

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I didn’t have access to SyFy (which was still going by Sci-Fi Channel back then) when The Lost Room aired, so I missed it. Turns out I wasn’t the only one -...

Just in case you've been living in the Upside Down, let me get you up to speed: Stranger Things Season 2 is officially happening. And as revealed by the show's unreasonably-attractive creators the Duffer Brothers, the new episodes will be set a year after the events of the first season, which would place the characters squarely in the latter days of 1984 (Season 1 took place between November and December of 1983). While that's not a whole lot later, it's still enough time for a massive number of pop-culture and consumer products to have been introduced in the interim, from film to TV to music to technology. So what, pray tell, will Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Nancy, Jonathan and Steve (but not Barb, obvs) be using, watching, wearing, reading and listening to in the new season that wouldn't have been available to them in the prior timeline because they didn't exist yet? For those curious...

John Saavedra Dec 12, 2017

Over the years, Stephen King has crafted a complex fictional universe that revolves around The Dark Tower...

Editor's Note: This guide tries to keep it light on the spoilers, but there are some, gunslinger.

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For the past 40 years, Stephen King, an American master of letters, has shown time and time again why he's the king of pop fiction. Whether you've only read his horror stuff, or are all about his hard techno-fantasy books, you've probably read more than one of King's works and have undoubtedly started to see the connections that form. Because for almost the same amount of time as his entire professional career, King has been creating his very own fictional universe. 

I previously wrote about director Josh Boone's upcoming adaptation of The Stand, a fat novel that Constant...

Are the literary works of Peter Straub set for a Hollywood comeback? While the acclaimed horror author (and sometime collaborator of Stephen King) hasn't had an adaptation of one of his books hit the screen since 1981's "Ghost Story" starring Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., HitFix has learned exclusively that Straub's 1999 novel "Mr. X" has been optioned for a possible feature film treatment by director Josh Boone's Mid-World Productions banner. Boone, who helmed last year's smash hit "The Fault in Our Stars" is also set to write and direct "New Mutants," a new "X-Men" franchise for Fox, and Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles" for Universal. "Mr. X" centers on Ned Dunstan, a man who returns to his hometown on the eve of his 35th birthday to discover the terrifying source of the precognitive visions he's been haunted by since childhood. The film will be produced by Mid-World Productions,...

It’s been a rough road for adaptations of some of Stephen King’s biggest books. Rumors of a movie based on King and Peter Straub’s epic The Talisman have floated around for years (with Steven Spielberg attached at one point), but have never come to fruition. Ron Howard tantalized us with what was sure to be an amazing multi-feature version of King’s sprawling dark fantasy series The Dark Tower, but that too has languished in development Hell (although it may be moving forward again). Then Josh Boone came along with plans to update King’s post-apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand for a new generation. That project originally earned consternation from fans when it was announced that the 1000+ page novel (the unexpurgated version – King’s...

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Even though "The Talisman" is one of those novels from Stephen King's oeuvre that has had a hard time getting to the big screen, on the page it has had no problem flourishing.

Co-penned by Peter Straub and released in '84, the novel saw the arrival of a sequel called "Black House" in 2001 also penned by King and Straub.

Now, it appears the two are going to be collaborating on a third installment. Per Lilja's Library...

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This month, Boston is paying tribute to its native son: the Master of Macabre. A new statue of Edgar Allan Poe was recently revealed in Poe Square, a bronze bust of Poe will be unveiled on October 30th, one evening before Jeffrey Combs performs in Nevermore: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe at the Somerville Theatre, and now a poster adds to the celebration with a depiction of Combs as Poe.

Illustrated by Phantom City Creative artist Justin Erickson, the 18” x 24” Nevermore prints are limited to 100 and are priced at $50 apiece. We have the official details on the prints, the bronze bust, and Nevermore: An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe:

Boston (October 1, 2014) — “On October 31, fans of the darker literary persuasion will find a very special treat at the Somerville Theatre. At 8pm, the house lights will go down, and Edgar Allan Poe will return. In “Nevermore:...

Thirty-six years is a long time to go missing. It’s a long time to let ghosts accumulate, real and imagined. And it’s a long time to follow up on one of the most well-known and well-regarded novels – horror or otherwise – of the twentieth century.

It would be nearly impossible to consider a novel like Doctor Sleep without considering The Shining, both the book and the baggage that comes with the book. King’s 1977 novel has become a cultural touchstone, a sort of shorthand for the ultimate in horror lit. When sitcoms want to tell easy jokes about scary books, The Shining is what they reference. There’s also the not-inconsiderable behemoth of Stanley Kubrick’s unfaithful adaptation, a movie many people consider the best horror movie of all time (to King’s consternation, according to the afterword). Whether it’s fair or not, Doctor Sleep has a lot of history to contend with,...

We’ve been covering Doctor Sleep quite a bit since it was officially announced last year and will have much more coverage leading up to its release in September. The novel is a sequel to The Shining that follows a 40 year old Danny Torrance and a tribe of psychic vampires.

EW recently caught up with Stephen King and published a lengthy interview, where King talks about his reason for writing a sequel now, re-reading The Shining after all these years, and there’s mention of a ‘Salem’s Lot Easter egg:

At what point did you first consider reviving this character from The Shining?

Every now and then somebody would ask, ‘Whatever happened to Danny?’ I used to joke around and say, ‘He married Charlie McGee from Firestarter and they had these amazing kids!’ But I did sort of wonder about it.

What finally inspired you to explore that question seriously?...

A few weeks ago EW released some teasers from its in-depth interview with Stephen King for Doctor Sleep (coming in September), and now they've published the whole thing. We have several highlights here.

Be sure to read to the end for word on an Easter egg in Doctor Sleep, and then hit the link at the bottom for the full article. There's a lot of good stuff there for King fans!

Doctor Sleep finds Dan Torrance as kind of a loner, working with terminally ill patients. His shining comes in very handy there, but what sparked you to the idea he would end up in a place like that?

Probably five years ago, I saw this piece on one of those morning news shows about a pet cat at a hospice, and according to this story the cat knew before anybody else when somebody was going to die. The cat would go into the room,...