Gifted girl on the run
PYROKINETIC POWER: FEDERAL AGENTS TRYING TO CAPTURE HER They want to turn her ability to create fire into weapon of mass destruction.
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) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) 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 for her to control.
After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes) is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all.
But Charlie has other plans. The film also stars Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley and Gloria Reuben.
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, JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules.