Zac Efron’s Firestarter Reveals First Look Image And A New Star

If you’re a Stephen King fan and Ryan Kiera Armstrong looks oddly familiar, that’s probably because you’ve watched IT: Chapter Two more than a few times. That’s right: Firestarter will already be the young actor’s second time starring in a King adaptation. In the Andy Muschietti-directed sequel, Armstrong played Victoria Fuller – the girl with a birthmark on her face who meets a grisly end when Pennywise The Dancing Clown lures her underneath the bleachers at a little league game. It’s one of the best sequences in the film, and one of the scariest.

What’s even funnier from a trivia perspective is that it means that she is walking in the footsteps of Drew Barrymore in more ways than one. Barrymore was the first actor to play the role of Charlie McGee on the big screen, starring in director Mark L. Lester’s 1984 adaptation of Firestarter (and pictured at the top of this article), but that wasn’t her only experience with Stephen King adaptations as a child star. In 1985 she also starred in the horror anthology film Cat’s Eye, which features two of King’s short stories brought to live-action: “Quitters Inc.” and “The Ledge”.

First published in 1980, Firestarter tells the story of Andy and Charlie McGee, a father and daughter who are forced to go on the run when they start being hunted by a government agency known as The Shop. Because of a drug trial he was in as a college student, Andy has the power to “push” people, which is to say that he can alter a person’s perspective of reality to suit his purposes. His wife, Vicky, was also in the experiment (becoming telepathic as a result) and they wind up passing their psychic powers down to their child. The gift that Charlie possesses, however, is the ability to start fires with her mind, and with enough concentration she could potentially crack the world in half.

Keith Thomas is directing the new big screen version of Firestarter based on a screenplay by Scott Teems. While the movie is in production now, and Universal Pictures is set to release the movie in theaters, the film does not yet have an official release date.

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