‘Firestarter’: Epic Stephen King Remake From Blumhouse Is Coming This May [Trailer]
Mary Beth McAndrews
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It’s here, folks. The highly anticipated trailer for Keith Thomas’ (The Vigil) adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter. And that’s not all. We also have a release date! The film hits Peacock and theaters on May 13, 2022.
The synopsis for Firestarter is as follows:
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie 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 is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
Watch the trailer now:
Ryan Kiera Armstrong (IT Chapter Two) plays Charlie, Zac Efron plays her father Andy and Sydney Lemmon plays her mother Vickey.
Michael Greyeyes (Blood Quantum), Gloria Reuben (Lincoln, “Mr. Robot”), Kurtwood Smith, and John Beasley also star.
Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) adapted the screenplay. Jason Blum and Academy Award winner Akiva Goldsman are producers. Martha De Laurentiis, who was an associate producer on the 1984 adaptation of Firestarter, is an executive producer. Also, John Carpenter has been tapped to score the film, alongside his Halloween composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.
Thomas previously told 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 … 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.”
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