![]() ![]() It’s one of my fave alltime King movies–right up there with Misery, Carrie, and The Shawshank Redemption–so I know how closely Sheen’s smarmy portrayal of the power-mad, fear-mongering Stillson resembles the orangey dude who, come tomorrow, gets the nuclear codes necessary to destroy the world many times over. Now, I’ve seen the The Dead Zone a bunch of times. Also available in audio for the first time, read by Academy Award nominee James Franco.The two things that conjured. ![]() To his 2.7-million followers, King tweeted: “Populist demagogues like He Who Must Not Be Named aren’t a new thing see THE DEAD ZONE, published 37 years ago.” presidential campaign in full swing, King himself noted the similarities between the Stillson character and Donald Trump, who he referred to then as He Who Must Not Be Named. At one point he happens to shake hands with Gregg Stillson (Martin Sheen), a dangerous, fast-rising American politician whose angry rhetoric incites the working class to proclaim him as their saviour. It's about a schoolteacher named Johnny Smith (played by Christopher Walken) who, after a terrible car crash, wakes up from a coma to realize that he can see people's futures when he makes physical contact with them. The Dead Zone, also known as Stephen King's The Dead Zone (in the USA) is a science fiction drama television series starring Anthony Michael Hall as Johnny Smith, who discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma. I don't mean to freak people out, but has anybody seen The Dead Zone, David Cronenberg's awesome 1983 adaptation of Stephen King's equally wicked 1979 novel? ![]()
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