FIRESTARTER (15)
Preview
Stephen King’s celebrated 1980 novel kindled a film adaptation four years later starring David Keith and a cherubic Drew Barrymore.
Screenwriter Scott Teems revamps the source material for a supernatural horror, which tests the bond between a father and daughter on the run from a shadowy agency.
Captain Hollister (Gloria Reuben) is director of The Shop, a top-secret government off-shoot, which intends to capture one of its test subjects, Andrew Mcgee (Zac Efron), who developed telepathic abilities in response to an experimental drug.
Andrew’s daughter Charlene (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is blessed – or perhaps cursed – with devastating pyrokinetic powers.
Andrew joins her on the run from assassin John Rainbird (Michael Greyeyes) and other nefarious individuals who seek to weaponise Charlene.
In cinemas from Friday