"In the movie, the man that took the photograph was my son, Ramon ," Sheen reveals.
Stillson then finds the nearest human shield - a young boy - and in an act of ultimate cowardice holds him aloft as a press photographer snaps a damning picture that single-handedly ends his campaign. Infiltrating one of the candidate's rallies, he plans to assassinate the future world-destroyer, but his first shot goes wide. Unlike Trump, Stillson never achieves the presidency thanks to Johnny's intervention. I didn't realize the effect it could have on a lot of people, maybe for the better when they realize, 'If you get into high public office, you're carrying some pretty important responsibility, and you'd better be a responsible person.' Didn't we just learn that from a recent occupant of the highest office in the land." But playing that screwball was actually a lot of fun.
"I mean, we've had some of those lunatics reach very high levels in public life and public service that have given us second thoughts. "I didn't have to stretch very far," he says of how he got into character. And while it wasn't quite a studio picture, it was released by Paramount, so that was an interesting experience as well." "It was an interesting creative experience, because I'd been writing my own stuff before that. "That was an important film for me, because it was the first time I did an adaptation of a book," Cronenberg continues. I'm gonna blame him for Bush and Trump!" (Watch our video interview above.) "Unfortunately, you invent monsters and they come to life. Bush-like and then even more like Donald Trump as it turns out," the Canadian auteur tells Yahoo Entertainment with a laugh. "It was a character invented by Stephen King, of course, but it turned to be very George W. Sound familiar? It certainly does to Cronenberg. As Johnny comes to terms with these abilities, he watches the rise of Sheen's outsider presidential candidate, Greg Stillson, whose promise to make America great again masks the reality of a darker tomorrow should he ascend to the Oval Office. Both the book and the movie follow Johnny Smith (played onscreen by Christopher Walken), a schoolteacher who awakens from a car accident-induced coma with the power - or is that curse? - of clairvoyance. In 1983, the director of cult-horror hits like Scanners and the star of Badlands and Apocalypse Now teamed up for The Dead Zone, an acclaimed adaptation of Stephen King's bestselling chiller. You might say that David Cronenberg and Martin Sheen saw the future.
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