| Stephen King's The Dead Zone (TV Show) |
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| Nicole DeBoer will play Sarah. |
| Sunday May 20, 2001 The series has been psot-ponned from fall to mid-season as reports www.scifi.com in this article: UPN offered a first glimpse at its upcoming midseason replacement series Stephen King's The Dead Zone, starring Anthony Michael Hall, during its May 17 schedule presentation to advertisers in New York. The new series, based on King's best-selling novel and the 1983 film of the same name, comes from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine producer Michael Piller; his son, Shawn; Kevin Beggs; and Lloyd Segan. Hall stars as Johnny Smith, "a young man who awakens from a coma to discover that he has the power to see the past and foretell the future," UPN entertainment president Tom Nunan told the audience. "But with this power comes a price. Johnny now sees more and knows more than he every wanted." A video preview of the show contained scenes borrowed from the 1983 film, as well as new ones reminiscent of early X-Files episodes. Hall is paired with DS9 alumna Nicole deBoer, who plays Smith's fiancee, Sarah Bracknell. The cast also includes Michael Moriarty as televangelist the Rev. Gene Purdy, Smith's stepfather and beneficiary of his deceased mother's sizable estate. The Dead Zone to be made into a tv mini-series. It has been confirmed that Anthony Micheal Hall will play Johnny Smith, and Nicole DeBoer will play Sarah Hazlet in Upn's upcoming Dead Zone tv series. "All I really know so far is that we're going to try to do a pilot and probably one episode before the [impending actors' and writers' union] strikes." says SCIFI-Wire. "Stephen King's The Dead Zone" will be a one hour tv series, the premiere date is TBA, is scheduled to premire in Fall 2001. Micheal Piller and son Shawn Piller will be executive producers. |