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Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing
Group, announced today the acquisition of the comic book and graphic
novel rights to The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub. The
creative team on the project will be announced soon, and the first
issue of the monthly comic is planned for late summer/early fall 2009.
Originally published in 1984, The Talisman is the story of a young teen
named Jack Sawyer, who can save his dying mother only by retrieving a
magical talisman. To find it he must cross back and forth between our
world and the frightening and dangerous landscape of its “twinner”
counterpart. The hardcover edition, published by Viking, spent 12 weeks
in the #1 slot on the New York Times list. Both The Talisman and its
sequel, Black House, are in print with Ballantine Books. Television
rights to The Talisman are under development by Steven Spielberg and
Kathleen Kennedy.
“Illustrating The Talisman in the depth that it deserves will involve
at least 24 issues of comics, probably more,” said Del Rey Editor in
Chief, Betsy Mitchell, who acquired the project from agent Ralph
Vicinanza. “It’s a tremendously visual story, filled with images that
burn in memory long after the book has been closed.”
King’s Dark Tower comics consistently inhabit the top of the comic book
sales charts, and his recent series, Dark Tower: Long Road Home was the
top-selling comic book in North America in March 2008.
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