Firestarter Official Trailer

Never Play With Fire.

Watch and share the new trailer for “FIRESTARTER,” a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of “The Invisible Man.”

 

Directed by: Keith Thomas
Screenplay by: Scott Teems, based on the novel by Stephen King

Cast: Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley, with Michael Greyeyes and Gloria Reuben

Rated: R
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Producers: Jason Blum, Akiva Goldsman

 

Movie Synopsis

 

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.

 

The film also stars Kurtwood Smith (Amityville: The Awakening, Hitchcock), John Beasley (The Purge: Anarchy, The Sum of All Fears) and Gloria Reuben (Lincoln, Mr. Robot). The Firestarter score is composed by the legendary John Carpenter (Halloween, Christine, The Fog) and his fellow Halloween franchise composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

 

Directed by Keith Thomas (The Vigil), from a screenplay by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) based on the novel by Stephen King, Firestarter 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.

 

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Opening Date

In theaters and streaming only on Peacock May 13

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@peepso_user_28973(markkeyser)
Usually against remakes in general but this looks pretty good. Would have rather seen a sequel movie like what happened with Doctor Sleep, but I guess this as good as we get. Hard to beat Barrymore in this role. Looking forward to it nonetheless.
@peepso_user_17297(DennyS)
@peepso_user_28973(markkeyser) Oh man, It's so hard to believe it's been nearly 40yrs since little Drew starred in this. I now know how my dad felt while we were watching The Blob in1988 and he was saying it was much better with Stave McQueen (1958)