I randomly decided to re-read The Dead Zone not too long ago. But when he encounters a ruthlessly ambitious and amoral man who promises a terrifying fate for all humanity, Johnny must find a way to prevent a harrowing predestination from becoming reality. Johnny Smith comes back from the void with an extraordinary gift that becomes his life’s curse…presenting visions of what was and what will be for the innocent and guilty alike. But it isn’t until Johnny’s a grown man-now having survived a horrifying auto injury that plunged him into a coma lasting four-and-a-half years-that his special abilities really push to the fore. When Johnny Smith was six-years-old, head trauma caused by a bad ice-skating accident left him with a nasty bruise on his forehead and, from time to time, those hunches…infrequent but accurate snippets of things to come. Johnny Smith stayed there a long, long time.” “There was only blackness and that universal emptiness… Cold limbo. Stephen King’s #1 New York Times bestseller about a reluctant clairvoyant who must weigh his options when he suddenly sees the terrible future awaiting mankind. 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.First line: By the time he graduated from college, John Smith had forgotten all about the bad fall he took on the ice that January day in 1953. Now, I’ve seen the The Dead Zone a bunch of times.
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. 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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