Stephen King’s “Firestarter” was originally published in 1980, quickly inspiring a film adaptation in 1984, where Drew Barrymore, fresh off her turn in “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” played the eponymous pyrokinetic. The feature attempted to be faithful to King’s material, and it ...
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There was plenty of room to improve on the original, but Firestarter trips over that low bar and tumbles toward the bottom of the long list of Stephen King adaptations. Read Critics Reviews Audience Says It isn't offensively awful, but this Firestarter is still a half-hearted letdown compa...
1984’sFirestarter, the big screen adaptation of theStephen King novelof the same name, had enough going for it to make it one of the big ones. It came from a best-selling book, it had spectacular explosions during the climax, a touching story between the two main characters, and a gro...
Back in the early 1980s,John Carpenterwas tasked by Universal Pictures to write and direct an adaptation ofStephen King’sFirestarter. But after his remake ofThe Thingtanked at the box office and was savaged by critics in the summer of 1982, the studio jettisoned him from the project and ...
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“Firestarter” was the fifth movie in a year that was based on a best-selling thriller byStephen King. The others were “Christine,”“Cujo,”“The Dead Zone,” and “Children of the Corn.” The best of those — and the one most similar to “Firestarter” — is “The Dead Zone,”...
The 2002 TV movie Firestarter 2: Rekindled attempted to continue the story of Stephen King’s 1980 novel Firestarter and its 1984 original feature adaptation of the same name. Now TNT is taking a turn at continuing the Firestarter storyline with the announcement of a new TV series called The...
Firestarter: Directed by Mark L. Lester. With David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Freddie Jones, Heather Locklear. A couple who participated in a potent medical experiment gain telepathic ability and then have a child who is pyrokinetic.