Lucas' S4 Book Secretly Teases Netflix's Stranger Things Replacement
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4
The Stranger Things season 4 ending was packed full of Easter eggs, but Lucas' reading material stood out for secretly teasing the Duffer Brothers' next major project, The Talisman. It's been confirmed that Stranger Things will end after season 5, creating opportunities for the Duffer Brothers to branch out into new stories. With Stephen King being one of their greatest influences, it seems appropriate for them to adapt one of King's many great works for the small screen.
While the entire Stranger Things season 4 ending was certainly explosive (at times literally), audiences are gifted a more tender moment towards the end of the episode. After Max is attacked by Vecna and surprisingly resurrected by Eleven, she is left comatose and hospitalized with Lucas and Erica sitting at her bedside. Not knowing if she can hear him, but keeping her company nonetheless, Lucas reads an extract of Stephen King and Peter Straub's 1984 young-adult fantasy novel, The Talisman, to his injured on-again, 0ff-again girlfriend. While viewers might understand the significance of the extract Lucas reads, some may not know the deeper ties this well-known novel has to the Duffer Brothers, the creators of Stranger Things.
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The Talisman tells the story of 12-year-old Jack Sawyer who goes on an epic journey in search of the Talisman, a relic that has the potential to save his dying mother's life, and even save the rest of the world. His journey takes him across the country and into a dangerous parallel universe known as the Territories, a place mentioned in the extract that Lucas reads in Stranger Things that
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