In 2002, a television series based loosely on the novel aired on the USA Network, starring Anthony Michael Hall as Smith. The 1983 film stars Christopher Walken as Johnny and Martin Sheen as Stillson and was directed by David Cronenberg. The story has been adapted twice into visual media. As he comes to terms with all that has happened in the missing five years of his life and the notoriety he gains with his abilities, he finds himself trying to stop the election of Greg Stillson, an up-and-coming politician whom Johnny foresees will cause a nuclear apocalypse.

Now, whenever he touches something or someone, Johnny may have a psychic vision of the past, present or a possible future. It has the distinction of being entirely planned from the start unlike his usual Writing by the Seat of Your Pants, and is the only time he tried this and ended up liking the result.Ī high school teacher named Johnny Smith is left in a coma for four and a half years following a car accident - only to discover when he wakes up that, while he has suffered slight brain damage creating a 'dead zone' where certain concepts are inaccessible, he has also gone from having occasional flashes of precognition, to having a powerful form of psychometry. Although it isn't stated outright, it is likely that Nehemiah and George were relatives.īannerman's character was fused with the character of Walt Hazlett to create the original character of Walt Bannerman – both husband of Sarah Bracknell and sheriff of Cleaves Mills, Maine.The Dead Zone is a 1979 sci-fi/thriller novel by Stephen King. According to Elevation, Bannerman Road was a portion of Route 119 that ran through Castle Rock.Īccording to Gwendy's Magic Feather, he was buried in Castle Rock's Homeland Cemetery.Īccording to Mike Noonan in the novel Bag of Bones, the Castle County Sheriff in August of 1901 was Nehemiah Bannerman. Sometime later, a road near Castle View was named Bannerman Road in his honor.

He worked with Johnny Smith to track down the Castle Rock Strangler also known as the November Killer, his deputy Frank Dodd. He is described as being a very large man with dark, curly hair, and wears rimless spectacles. He also has an Irish Setter dog named Rusty who was living during the events of The Dead Zone, but had been put down by the events of Cujo. He has a wife named Vicky and a daughter named Katrina. He was the sheriff in Castle Rock, Maine from November of 1972 until his death in July of 1980. Serving as the deuteragonist of The Dead Zone, a minor character in Cujo and a mentioned character of Needful Things, The Dark Half, Gwendy's Button Box, and Elevation.

George Bannerman is a major character character of the Stephen King multiverse.

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