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enews:What time is it? Time to start brainstorming the plot for HSM 4.

Firestarter - Official Clip (2022) Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon, Stephen King

Firestarter Zac Efron - “Andy McGee” and Ryan Kiera Armstrong - “Charlie McGee”

firestartermov:In ONE WEEK, a fire will rise. #Firestarte is in theaters and streaming only on @peacocktv this Friday the 13th!

Firestarter will be released on Digital on June 12 and on Blu-rayandDVD on June 28 via Universal. Produced by Blumhouse, the 2022 horror film is based on Stephen King’s 1980 novel, which was previously adapted into a film in 1984.

Keith Thomas (The Vigil) directs from a script by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills). Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith, John Beasley, Michael Greyeyes, and Gloria Reuben star. John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, & Daniel Davies (Halloween) composed the score.

Special features, including an alternate ending, are listed below.

Special features:

• Audio commentary by director Keith Thomas
• A Kinetic Energy - Featurette with director Keith Thomas and actors Zac Efron and Ryan Kiera Armstrong
• Spark a Fire - Featurette on how the story was adapted from the novel
• Igniting Firestarter - Featurette on fire effects
• Power Struggle - Featurette on stunts and practical effects
• Alternate ending
• 7 deleted and extended scenes
• Gag reel

For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction.

Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes) is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.

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Day 21

Reflections on Firestarter(1984)

• The music by Tangerine Dream is excellent, obviously.
• The cast is stacked! Tiny Drew Barrymore does a ton of cutesy baby voice, but it’s allowed because she’s only 8. David Keith plays her father and looks like a poor man’s Kurt Russell (see photos 3 and 9 above). Heather Locklear, in her first film role, plays Barrymore’s mother.
• Louise Fletcher, who is usually fabulous, kinda phones it in. Good for her.
• Freddie Jones plays a weirdly similar role here to his character Thufir in Dune (1984) - both are experts whose frustrations and concerns go ignored. Moses Gunn also plays a similar role to his character in The NeverEnding Story (1984) - both are scientists reluctantly in charge of the deteriorating health of important, powerful young girls. Wow! All 3 of these movies were released the same year. Weird. 1984 was a big year for Freddie and Moses and sci-fi in general! 
• Speaking of big, Martin Sheen seems so little but obviously compensates by having such TALL HAIR. 
• George C. Scott plays an unrepentant maniac in leather, sometimes an eyepatch, and a long grey ponytail. The first time his character is on screen it looks like he’s made of bronze. It took me until nearly the end of the film to realize that his character was supposed to be Cherokee :(
• Director Mark L. Lester was also responsible for such cinematic gems as Roller Boogie(1979),Class of 1984 (1982) and Commando (1985). This was probably better than all of those - which is impressive! If you haven’t seen any of these titles I recommend them all.
• This was shot entirely in lush, green, kudzu-covered North Carolina. The cinematography is gorgeous! Extreme wide angle lenses are used in many scenes which warp straight architectural lines in a pleasingly wiggly way.
• Excellent horse acting. One of the horses is named Necromancer. Nice.
• The film climaxes with a combination of frog, horse, and synth sounds. I couldn’t ask for anything more - except maybe that a white dude didn’t play an Indigenous man. 

“He was a boy of air and dust and sunlight. Everything that had gone into the making of the world.”
―@tarasimauthor,Timekeeper