![]() ![]() King’s novel and the 1984 film both start in medias res, after DSI agents finally track down the McGee family and force Andy and Charlie to go on the run. ![]() And their young daughter, Charlie (Armstrong), treats her pyrokinetic abilities like a mental illness, using breathing exercises and self-soothing techniques to keep them at bay. Vicky (Lemmon) refuses to use her ill-defined powers at all. Andy can psychically “push” people into doing things, a skill he’s using to cure nicotine addictions for cash in an early scene. Where the new version actually surpasses the ’84 movie is that in this case, at least a couple of those names deliver.Įfron stars alongside Sydney Lemmon ( Helstrom, Fear the Walking Dead) and Ryan Kiera Armstrong ( Anne with an E, Black Widow) as Andy McGee, patriarch of a small clan burdened with destructive psychic powers coveted by a CIA-esque government agency known as the DSI. ![]() As with the 1984 film version of Firestarter - widely acknowledged as one of the worst King adaptations - the cast and crew of the 2022 Firestarter features names that seem too high-profile for this particular project. Every once in a while, while watching it, the thought appears unbidden, as if it was placed by one of the film’s psychic protagonists: Oh yeah, Zac Efron is in this. Zac Efron isn’t terrible in Peacock’s adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter, but he is distracting. ![]()
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