The Dead Zone (1983)

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Wikidata Q466792, film, IMDb tt0085407, TMDB 11336: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by episode credits Christopher Walken as star (Star 80 with Julie Klausner).

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Connected to

Christopher Walken: 2 lines lineage ×1 theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Dead Zone → Christopher Walken. The SNL trivial-psychic Walken bit pushed Dead Zone to another level.
    “the trivial psychic, Christopher Walken thing, pushed that to another level in SNL”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:10:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

David Cronenberg: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): The Dead Zone → David Cronenberg. Koppelman thinks of The Dead Zone as a Cronenberg movie and top-group King.
    “which I think of as a Cronenberg movie, which is absolutely in that top group of Stephen King movies, the dead zone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:09:31 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

Martin Sheen: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): The Dead Zone → Martin Sheen. Sheen's villain in The Dead Zone was referenced twice on Billions.
    “Martin Sheen in that movie, uh, is we, we, we referenced that movie twice last year on the TV show”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:10:31 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

Misery: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Misery → The Dead Zone. Koppelman's double feature is Dead Zone and Misery.
    “Dead zone and misery.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 1:19:44 · Brian Koppelman (0.60 sure it was them)

Where it came up

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lineage (1)

  1. lineage (SNL sketch source): The Dead Zone → Christopher Walken. The film inspired the SNL sketch Ed Glosser Trivial Psychic.
    “Inspiration for one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Star 80 with Julie Klausner · 1:48:32 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): The Dead Zone → David Cronenberg. Koppelman thinks of The Dead Zone as a Cronenberg movie and top-group King.
    “which I think of as a Cronenberg movie, which is absolutely in that top group of Stephen King movies, the dead zone.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:09:31 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): The Dead Zone → Martin Sheen. Sheen's villain in The Dead Zone was referenced twice on Billions.
    “Martin Sheen in that movie, uh, is we, we, we referenced that movie twice last year on the TV show”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:10:31 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Misery → The Dead Zone. Koppelman's double feature is Dead Zone and Misery.
    “Dead zone and misery.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 1:19:44 · Brian Koppelman (0.60 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (theme): The Dead Zone → Christopher Walken. The SNL trivial-psychic Walken bit pushed Dead Zone to another level.
    “the trivial psychic, Christopher Walken thing, pushed that to another level in SNL”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:10:13 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

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