Video - STEPHEN KING'S: THE TALISMAN by Mathieu Ratthe

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The Talisman Demo Reel
Published 7/17/2008 by slashfilm.com at /Film
Stephen King and Peter Straub’s coming of age fantasy novel The Talisman tells the story of a twelve years old kid who must go on a fantastic quest in search of the Talisman, in order to save his dying mother. Apparently Steven Spielberg purchased the rights to a movie adaptation shortly after the book was published in 1984. The project went through many incarnations, but never went into production. Most recently, Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy announced plans to produce a six-part mini-series based on the book for TNT. The project fell back into development hell due to budgetary concerns. A ...

'The Talisman' Demo Reel Based on Stephen King's Book
Published 7/17/2008 at RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines
'The Talisman' Demo Reel Based on Stephen King's Book A green director makes an aggressive attempt for attention

If you like Stephen King and Peter Straub's THE TALISMAN, you should check out what this guy's doing...
Published 7/17/2008 by Quint at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Being the resident Stephen King nut around these parts, I was sent a link by Moriarty to a website called The Wordslinger which is championing a young Canadian filmmaker who has taken a giant leap of faith. I remember as a kid consuming every Stephen King book I could get my hands on and when I read The Talisman I was floored. Then I heard that noneother than Steven Spielberg optioned the book and I've been dying to see him tackle it for damn near 2/3rds of my life. But he hasn't done it. There have been attempts, the most recent by Ehren Kruger. I got my hands on his script back in 2003 and... I wasn't happy. ...

The Talisman short film
Published 7/17/2008 at Filmstalker
TheTalisman.jpg Stephen King's The Talisman is being made into a mini-series, or so they say because we've seen nothing of it so far and it was due very soon, but in the meantime there's a director who has gone out and made a little short scene of what his Talisman could be. Mathieu Ratthe took a short scene from early on in the story and made it into a rather interesting short film, something that the official Talisman mini-series hasn't even been able to do as yet, and that's been going on for years. However, I wasn't wholly impressed. Sure it has Cameron Bright ...