John Carpenter Releases a Track From His FIRESTARTER Movie Score

When it comes to composing movie scores, John Carpenter is mostly known for the work that he does on his own film projects. He recently created the score for Halloween Kills, and after that, he was hired to do the musical score for the upcoming new adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter.

Carpenter has shared the first track from the score he composed for the film and you can listen to it in the player below. As you’ll hear, the music is very reminiscent of his own Halloween theme music, which doesn’t really come as a surprise. It’s got that chilling synthesizer tone.

Carpenter worked on the soundtrack with his son Cody Carpenter, and Daniel Davies, both of whom he previously worked with on Universal’s Halloween sequels.

King’s story follows Charlie McGee played by Ryan Kiera Armstrong, “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 (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 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. Charlie has other plans.”

The new movie is helmed by Keith Thomas (The Vigil) from a script by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills). It will be released on Peacock on May 13th.