It's no question I'm loving the resurgence of Stephen King properties lately. While I enjoyed the 1984 version statting Drew Barrymore, David Keith, and George C. Scott (you betcha) I'm thrilled to see this sneak peek of the Blumhouse vision. The score by John Carpenter is just the icing on the cake.

Check out the trailer below!

#Firestarter (2022) is in theaters and streaming only on Peacock May 13.

In a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of The Invisible Man (2020), 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 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 Firestarter score is composed by the legendary John Carpenter and his fellow Halloween franchise composers Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.

Directed by Keith Thomas, from a screenplay by Scott Teems, based on the novel by Stephen King, Firestarter is produced by Jason Blum for Blumhouse and Oscar® winner Akiva Goldsman for Weed Road Pictures. The film’s executive producers are Ryan Turek, Gregory Lessans, Scott Teems, Martha De Laurentiis, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules

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MontiLee Stormer
Movie Reelist Contributor: MontiLee Stormer
MontiLee Stormer is a writer of horror, dark and urban fantasy. She’s also is a troublemaker, concocting acts of mayhem and despair for her own selfish pleasure. An avid movie watcher, she prefers horror but will see just about anything if you're buying. Poltergeist (1982) is her favorite movie and she actively hates The Shining (1980) due to its racism, misogyny, the butchering of the source material. She could host a TEDtalk on this single subject. Writing about herself in the third person is just a bonus.

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