Making The Dead Zone

1983

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In his mind, he has the power to see the future. In his hands, he has the power to change it.

Production

Go behind the scenes on the 1983 Horror / Occult movie starring Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams, Tom Skerritt, Herbert Lom

Martin Sheen, Anthony Zerbe, Colleen Dewhurst, Nicholas Campbell, Sean Sullivan, Jackie Burroughs, Géza Kovács, Roberta Weiss, Simon Craig, Peter Dvorsky, Julie-Ann Heathwood, Barry Flatman, Raffi Tchalikian, Ken Pogue, Gordon Jocelyn, Bill Copeland Update Cast

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Update

Stephen King allegedly originally wanted Bill Murray to play Johnny's role!

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Director David Cronenberg had to reshoot the scene in which John Smith has his first premonition. It showed a little girl's room burning with a small "E.T." doll on one of the shelves. The scene had to be re-done when Universal Pictures objected.

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It was David Cronenberg's idea to insert Johnny into his visions. The idea was met with a favorable response from writer Stephen King.

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Stephen King originally wrote a screenplay for the Dead Zone. However, the Director David Cronenberg thought it was god awful - that King made the Castle Rock killer the main character and it was more of a slasher film.

Jeffrey Baum, the actual screen writer of the film, said "it's like King didn't understand his own book"

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When Martin Sheen was approached for the role of the shady Stillson, he was a bit reluctant. For he had recently wrapped his work in "Gandhi" (1982) and felt that playing a role as Stillson wouldn't be right.

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Deleted Scenes

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There was a scene filmed for the beginning of the movie when Johnny suffers a head injury as a kid and has his first premonition which was taken out in the final cut of the movie

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Alternate Versions

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