Trailer For Blumhouse's Adaptation of Stephen King's FIRESTARTER Coming to Theaters and Peacock in May
Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Blumhouse’s upcoming film adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter. I’m a fan of the original film, but this new adaptation looks like a great flick! It looks a lot better than I was expecting. It seems like the girl they got to play Charlie, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, delivers a great performance.
King’s story follows Charlie McGee, “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.”
Universal has been getting a lot of love from filmmakers like M. Night Shaymalan and Christopher Nolan for their dedication to releasing their films in theaters. Well, the studio is taking a different approach with Blumhouse’s Firestarter.
They are playing the same game that Warner Bros. is playing with HBO Max and Disney is playing with Disney+. Firestarter will be released on May 13th, 2022 both in theaters and on their streaming service Peacock.
According to the report, the streaming service needs to up its paid subscriber count so Firestarter is being used to help boost their numbers. This will be the fourth film Universal has released on Peacock afterThe Boss Baby: Family Business, Blumhouse/Miramax’s Halloween Kills and this weekend’s romantic comedy Marry Me starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson.
I’ll go see the movie in theaters to support the cinema. The new movie is helmed by Keith Thomas (The Vigil) from a script by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills). The Firestarter score is composed by John Carpenter and his fellow Halloween franchise composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies. Jason Blum produces for Blumhouse with Akiva Goldsman.
Check out the trailer and tell us what you think.
