Stephen King adaptations have never been more popular and another is on the way!
Universal Pictures, Blumhouse Productions, and Weed Road Productions have announced that they’re developing a feature film based on Stephen King’s Firestarter. Along with the film announcement, it was also confirmed that Zac Efron is set to star.
Firestarter follows a young girl who develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful gift as a weapon. As first reported by Collider, Zac Efron will play Andy McGee. Keith Thomas is set to directed and he’s previously commented on the film stating,
It’s a new adaptation of the book. When Jason Blum pitched it to me it was exciting, as that’s one of my favorite Stephen King novels, and whilst I really like the 1980’s film, I felt we could do something new. The screenplay is by Scott Teems who wrote the upcoming Halloween Kills, it’s an amazing script. It has everything you would want, people’s heads catching fire and their faces melting off, and a dad and daughter on the run trying to survive being chased in this heightened tense experience. We are hoping to film this year, it will be a lot of fun.
The novel previously received a feature-film adaptation in 1984 in a film that starred Drew Barrymore and David Keith.
