2. The Dead Zone (2002-2007 TV series)
King’s 1979 sci-fi thriller was adapted into a 1982 David Cronenberg film starring Christopher Walken as a man who wakes from a coma to discover he has psychic powers—and thereafter devotes himself to trying to alter the tragic and/or apocalyptic events he glimpses. The USA Network TV series starring Anthony Michael Hall took a more loose “inspired by” approach to the source material, but it ran for a surprisingly successful six seasons, getting a lot of mileage out of scenarios in which the main character’s gift (seeing some dire event in the future, then trying to change that future) was put to use.
