New FIRESTARTER Will Carry Heavier Dramatic Punch
Mike Sprague
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Blumhouse and The Vigil director Keith Thomas’ upcoming remake of Stephen King’s Firestarter with Zac Efron will hopefully begin filming later this year. And today Thomas teases his film will carry a heavier dramatic punch.
Thomas tells ComicBook.com: “It’s something I’ve thought a lot about. And, certainly, when [Firestarter] first came to me, I was very lucky in that the script by Scott Teems, who wrote the upcoming Halloween Kills, was just very, very good, and very rich. The material itself isn’t different, right? I mean, it’s the same book that this film is drawing from, the one the earlier film did. But what we’re leaning into from the book is different. That’s the angle where you can do something. So, for me, it was really leaning into more emotional aspects. It was leaning into parenthood and what that looks like, and then, how do you raise a child, especially a child with abilities like this. That was the place the script went and I thought that it was something that’s a little different than the original film.”
He added: “Also, the book’s super-rich. There’s a lot of stuff that’s in the book that isn’t in the original film. There’s stuff in there that we’re using, that we’re going into. At the same time, I feel like, just for me, in terms of the films I’m interested in, I feel like there’s a visceral quality to the story that I didn’t see in the ’80s version, a rawness that I think is there in the book, that I certainly felt, that I’m really interested in diving into. And, luckily, I think everybody else involved feels the same way, that this is going to be … not only will it have the effects and you’re going to get to see all the stuff Charlie can do, which is fun, and cool, and exciting, but if we do it right, it’s not so much as dark as The Vigil, but you should come out of it emotionally. If you do it right, it’s going to really hit that way.”
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Thomas also teased people’s heads catching fire and their faces melting off.
He says: “The screenplay is by Scott Teems who wrote the upcoming Halloween Kills, it’s an amazing script. It has everything you would want; people’s heads catching fire and their faces melting off, and a dad and daughter on the run trying to survive being chased in this heightened tense experience.”
Adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) the Firestarter reboot centers on the Department of Scientific Intelligence (The Shop). They never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful skills as a weapon.
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