FIRESTARTER Trailer Engulfs The Internet With A Look At Keith Thomas’ Reboot
Sometimes I forget what films are in remake mode so I was delightfully surprised to see how well the newest pitch from Universal Pictures delivers with Keith Thomas own take on Firestarter, from a script by Scott Teems.
I can only imagine what some early bird naysayers may espouse until the film releases and we can all have an informed conversation, but I think many of us at least can agree the newest incarnation of The Invisible Man was kind of a banger, and with that film’s producers on board here, we might he in for something cool.
In a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her.
For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction.
Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
Firestarter opens in theaters on May 13, and streams on Peacock on the same day. The film also stars Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley and Gloria Reuben, and with a score from the legendary John Carpenter and his fellow Halloween franchise composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.
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