Talk:The Dead Zone (film)

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The trivia section mentioned that the gazebo was recently demolished. Instead of correcting this, someone instead commented in the article itself that this was false. I removed both claims given that there's no clear way to determine which is correct. - Augur

[edit] Removed Trivia

• The gazebo where one of the attacks took place was a permanent structure in a park at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada.
• Christopher Walken parodied his character in a Saturday Night Live sketch, in which he has the same abilities, but only for fairly useless things, such as vision of a man forgetting a "really good cup of coffee" on top of a taxi.
• Sheen later went on to play two fictional Presidents, Josiah Bartlet, on the television drama The West Wing (1999-2006) and the unnamed, fictional President in the made for television movie Medusa's Child (1997).
• Sheen also played president John F. Kennedy in the 1983 miniseries Kennedy.
• The photographer who takes the pictures of Stillson shielding himself with Sarah's baby is Martin Sheen's son, Ramon Estevez. According to the filmmakers on the 2006 Special Edition DVD, Estevez was visiting his father on set and was asked to make a cameo in the film.
• In the opening scene Johnny Smith tells his students to read The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Later on in his career Christopher Walken actually played the headless horseman in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow.
• This film was #51 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments.

I removed this from the article. Incorporate as you please. --MasterA113 02:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plot

Isn't the plot way too detailed ? -- Beardo 06:52, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

What should I remove that's unecessary here? --209.247.5.5 04:48, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

(P.S. I added the above comment. I forgot to log in.) --MasterA113 04:51, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

I replaced the 1590-word tome with a much briefer summary from an older revision [1]. --Tony Sidaway 01:47, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

----The plot is way too detailed and is nothing but a spoiler. Please incorporate trivia back into the article. It is a disaster and needs to be rebuilt, with embedded trivia and a more vague plot outline that doesn't ruin the finale. I apologize for this post's formatting. Jumbled information is better than none, trivia should be relocated, not removed. I hope this page improves. ----

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:The Dead Zone.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:21, 24 January 2008 (UTC)