Watch the full interview with King below.Īuthor predicted the rise of Trump 40 years ago - but he says the reality is scarier than anything he’s written /eVaza9TRgj “But we do seem to have a Greg Stillson as president of the United States.” “My worry at the time that I wrote ‘The Dead Zone’ was that somebody like Greg Stillson might actually get elected and rise through the ranks, become president of the United States and start World War III,” King added. King described the character as someone who said “crazy stuff that nobody would possibly believe or so we thought, until Donald Trump came along.” “The Dead Zone” features a power-hungry businessman-turned-politician named Greg Stillson, played by Martin Sheen. “I was sort of convinced that it was possible that a politician would arise who was so outside the mainstream and so willing to say anything that he would capture the imaginations of the American people,” he said. However, King did concede that he predicted a similar authoritarian figure with similarities to the president might come to power in his 1979 book “The Dead Zone,” later adapted into a film by David Cronenberg in 1983. Quentin Tarantino's Favorite Movies: 53 Films the Director Wants You to See Stephen King Adaptation 'The Boogeyman' Gets the 'Smile' Treatment in Pivot from StreamingĢ023 Emmy Awards: Television Academy Has Set Calendar for 75th Primetime Emmys 'Children of the Corn' Review: This Agricultural Horror Reboot Belongs in the Compost Bin
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