It's crazy to think that Steven Spielberg and Stephen King have never collaborated on a project, but there's still hope that these two icons may work together in the future.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Spielberg revealed that he's owned the rights to King's novel The Talisman since 1982 and he still hopes to one day bring the story to the big screen.

"I feel that in the very near future, that's going to be our richest collaboration," Spielberg told EW. "Universal bought the book for me, so it wasn't optioned. It was an outright sale of the book.

"I've owned the book since '82, and I'm hoping to get this movie made in the next couple of years. I'm not committing to the project as a director, I'm just saying that it's something that I've wanted to see come to theatres for the last 35 years."

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King added that there were "several times" when the adaptation was close to happening.

This includes a decade ago when the director tried to turn the novel into a six-hour miniseries for TNT, but it ended up being "just too rich for TNT's blood," according to Spielberg.

Published in 1984, The Talisman is a collaboration between King and fellow horror writer Peter Straub.

The book tells the story of 12-year-old Jack Sawyer who sets out on a quest through the American heartland and a parallel universe to find a talisman that could save his dying mother.

Meanwhile, Spielberg currently has plenty to be keeping him busy. Next year he'll begin filming the fifth instalment in the Indiana Jones series.

He's also developing a remake of musical West Side Story, and put out an open casting call looking for Latino actors in January.

And, of course, you can catch the Spielberg-directed Ready Player One now in cinemas.

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