The Hotel Room

The story goes that Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy were keen to make a miniseries of it, but cost and backroom politics seem to have killed that. We’re talking about Stephen King and Peter Straub’s fantasy The Talisman here, the epic scope of which is apparently hindering the book’s translation to cinema.

But the prospect that it might get made inspired director Matthieu Ratthi to make a demo scene, hoping to encourage the Powers That Be to consider him for the job of directing a Talisman movie, should such a beast ever be unleashed. The result is called “The Hotel Room”, and in my opinion it works remarkably effectively as a stand-alone piece of cinematic “flash fiction”.

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