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A new trailer for Blumhouse’s Firestarter has been released. Based on the 1980 novel of the same name by Stephen King, the new film is directed by Keith Thomas and written by Scott Teems. Ryan Kiera Armstrong is introduced as the new Charlie, the fiery role originally played by Drew Barrymore in the 1984 film adaptation, with Zac Efron co-starring as her father Andy McGee. You can watch the new trailer below.
The synopsis reads: “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.”
The film also stars Kurtwood Smith (Amityville: The Awakening, That ’70s Show), John Beasley (The Purge: Anarchy, The Sum of All Fears) and Gloria Reuben (Lincoln, Mr. Robot). John Carpenter (Halloween, Christine, The Fog) composed the score with fellow Halloween franchise composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. Firestarter is directed by Keith Thomas (The Vigil), from a screenplay by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills). It is produced by Jason Blum (Halloween, The Invisible Man) for Blumhouse and Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman (I Am Legend, Constantine) for Weed Road Pictures. The film’s executive producers are Ryan Turek, Gregory Lessans, Scott Teems, Martha De Laurentiis, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules.
“Firestarter, you know, (laughs) it’s a better book than a movie all those years ago, but it was just such, such a great idea, and it’s something I’ve always wanted to do,” Blum previously explained of the reboot, per CinemaBlend. “And I wouldn’t want to do it unless, same thing [as The Purge and James DeMonaco], unless – by the way, we couldn’t do it unless – Stephen King was okay with it. But he gave us our blessing, and that gave me the confidence to think, ‘Well, let’s give this a shot.’ So I hope he likes it. He liked the script, so hopefully he’ll like the movie.”
Blumhouse Has Been Hitting the Horror Well By Reviving Multiple Franchises
Blumhouse has already found great success in revisiting known horror franchises with all-new adaptations. It’s easy to point to the immense financial success of 2018’s Halloween, a legacy sequel that brought back Jamie Lee Curtis for one more battle with her longtime nemesis Michael Myers. The film was a smash hit in theaters and had two sequels ordered with Halloween Kills arriving in 2021 and Halloween Ends coming in October 2022.
The studio has also fallen back upon the Universal Monsters for successul modern films. 2020’s The Invisible Man by writer-director Leigh Whannell was similarly a big success. Blumhouse is also developing a Wolfman project with Ryan Gosling attached to star.
Firestarter will be released in theaters and on the streaming service Peacock on May 13, 2022.
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