I wrote the first draft of my first spec feature film script, the very black comedy 2020 Vision, back in a blitz during the winter holidays at the end of 2009. I had ten days, so my goal was to write ten pages a day.

No doubt influenced in part by The Simpsons, it featured a body-less man who woke up from a coma to find his wife sleeping with his ex-business partner —  but first in order to fight for her he had to find a new body.

Fast forward to 2017.

Later this year, Italian scientist Dr. Sergio Canavero intends to be the first to perform a human head transplant.

Little does he know I predicted this procedure; see the scene at the bottom of page 63. And I didn’t have the benefit of this scientific review.

My take: the question is not really whether truth is stranger than fiction, but rather if this neurosurgeon’s claim is truth OR fiction. I may have predicted one thing, but The Simpsons have accurately predicted the future more than a dozen times.