![]() Firestarter has a similar theme and protagonist, but rather that destroying a high-school prom full of bullies in a fiery inferno, Charlie McGee (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is taking revenge on The Shop, the government agency that killed her mother Vicky (Sydney Lemmon). ![]() ![]() King had hit big with his original novel Carrie, which craftily matched a young girl’s discovery of her telekinetic powers to her own menstrual development. So dust off your heat and fire-related puns, because it’s time to answer the burning questions about 2022’s Firestarter…įirestarter is no masterpiece in any incarnation, but it’s certainly a recognisable IP from the 80’s period where pretty much everything King wrote was news. Paramount’s attempt to drain a few more dollars from the Stephen King book is released in theatres and at home on streaming channel Peacock the same day, a pandemic-era strategy that automatically dooms it to failure. ![]() A re-imagining of Stephen King’s horror ‘masterpiece’ according to the trailer, the 2022 version of Firestarter isn’t any better than the 1984 version, and that wasn’t much cop in the first place. ![]()
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