Firestarter


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.


Zac Efron
Michael Greyeyes
Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Gloria Reuben
Zac Efron
Michael Greyeyes
Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Gloria Reuben

CURRENT STATUS: 
Now On DVD
RELEASE DATE: 
May 13, 2022 (Theaters)(Peacock) June 28, 2022 (DVD)

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MPAA: 
Rated R for "violent content."

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PROJECT DETAILS:

Ryan Kiera Armstrong (It Chapter Two, Anne with an E, The Tomorrow War) has been cast as "Charlie" in the film. Fans may remember Drew Berrymore played the same character in the original movie.

Michael Greyeyes (Blood Quantum) joins the cast and will play "Rainbird," who is described as "a relentless powerful man who has been pushed into a violent life." The character was played by George C. Scott in the original 1984 movie. (2/10/21)

Zac Efron is first to be cast in the film, with further casting underway. (9/30/20)

It looks like this project is moving again, with recent news that Keith Thomas (The Vigil) is set to direct. (12/17/19)

Akiva Goldsman (Winter's Tale) was previously set to direct.

Scott Teems (Sundance TV's Rectify) scripts. (4/30/17)

Universal Pictures hoped to go into production sometime in 2011, but that never happened.

Writer Mark L. Smith (Vacancy, The Hole) wrote an early draft of the script back in 2010.

One of the producers was quoted saying: "We see this as a unique, character-driven thriller with a supernatural edge, based on a timeless concept and enhanced by recent visual effects advances."

In the early stages of development, the studio reportedly wanted to turn the this into a franchise property.

Was once said to be loosely based on the original Stephen King book, but the "main character is to be reinvented with a little more edge."

This project has been in and out of development for well over a decade.

This is a remake of the 1984 film that starred a young Drew Berrymore, which was based on the Stephen King book with the same name.


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