The new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller “Firestarter” has gotten its first trailer. The new film from the producers of 2020’s “The Invisible Man” is slated to arrive in theaters and on streaming service Peacock on May 13, 2022.
In “Firestarter” parents Andy (Zac Efron) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) have spent more than a decade 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 to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes) is deployed to hunt down the family. Now, Charlie must fight to protect her family and herself from the forces that seek to capture and control her.
The new trailer also gives us our first listen to music from the “Firestarter” score, which is being composed by the legendary John Carpenter and his fellow “Halloween” franchise composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.
