{"id":258698,"date":"2021-05-25T21:30:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/firestarter-reboot-production-begins-with-behind-the-scenes-video-film\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T21:30:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:30:38","slug":"firestarter-reboot-production-begins-with-behind-the-scenes-video-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/firestarter-reboot-production-begins-with-behind-the-scenes-video-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Firestarter Reboot Production Begins With Behind-the-Scenes Video \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Firestarter Reboot Production Begins With Behind-the-Scenes Video \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Firestarter<\/em><\/strong>, Stephen King<\/strong>\u2018s tale of a\u00a0pyrokinetic young girl being pursued by a shadowy government agency, is getting a reboot from the folks at Blumhouse,\u00a0Universal Pictures, and Weed Road Productions. Keith Tomas<\/strong> (The Vigil<\/em>) is helming the latest take on the material, and the announced cast so far features\u00a0Zac Efron<\/strong> and\u00a0Michael Greyeyes<\/strong>.\u00a0Firestarter<\/em> began production today in Canada, and to kick things off, Blumhouse has released a fiery behind-the-scenes video, which you can see below.<\/p>\n

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Walking into the first day of production like\u2026. #firestarter<\/a> @jason_blum<\/a> @ZacEfron<\/a> @AkivaGoldsman<\/a> @StephenKing<\/a> @MichaelGreyeyes<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/bOtUWd4k56<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Blumhouse (@blumhouse) May 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nBehold \u2013 some guy on fire! That\u2019s an app<\/a>ropriate first image from the new\u00a0Firestarter<\/em>, which I guess we can confirm will be using at least some\u00a0<\/em>real fire instead of CGI fire. Good for them! This new take on Stephen King\u2019s 1980 novel comes from director Keith Tomas (The Vigil<\/em>), with a script by Scott Teems<\/strong> (Halloween Kills<\/em>). In the film, \u201cA young girl develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful gift as a weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n

That sounds like a faithful adaptation of King\u2019s novel, which has the following synopsis:<\/p>\n

Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them\u2014manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen\u2014pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary\u2026including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own\u2026.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Zac Efron is playing the Andy McGee role, while Michael Greyeyes is playing\u00a0John Rainbird, an assassin who works for The Shop and pretends to be friendly toward Charlie in order to get close to her. As for Charlie the\u00a0Firestarter<\/em> herself, Blumhouse has yet to announce who is playing that role. I\u2019ve emailed them to try to get an answer, but I\u2019m guessing they\u2019re not ready to reveal that bit of casting just yet. Drew Barrymore played the role in the 1980 film adaptation.
\nSpeaking of that 1980 adaptation \u2013 it\u2019s not very good! I recently revisited it when Scream Factory gave it a Blu-ray release and was taken aback at how poorly it\u2019s aged. It\u2019s just a lackluster film all around, and even Barrymore is quite bad in the title role. With that said, there\u2019s a lot of room for improvement here. I liked the moody atmosphere of Tomas\u2019s\u00a0The Vigil<\/em>, so I\u2019m interested in seeing what he does with this material.<\/p>\n

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