{"id":96578,"date":"2017-04-28T09:25:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T08:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=96578"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T08:25:30","slug":"stephen-kings-firestarter-remake-coming-from-blumhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stephen-kings-firestarter-remake-coming-from-blumhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King&#8217;s Firestarter remake coming from Blumhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having just shown the premiere of their horror film <strong><em>Stephanie<\/em><\/strong> at the Overlook Film Festival, Jason Blum and Akiva Goldsman have announced that they&#8217;re teaming up for another film: a remake of <strong><em>Firestarter<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2017\/04\/firestarter-remaake-blumhouse-akiva-goldsman-stephen-king-universal-1202078846\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that the duo will be working with Universal and Blum&#8217;s Blumhouse production company to bring a new version of Stephen King&#8217;s novel to the big screen, which was previously made into a film in 1984 by Mark L Lester.<\/p>\n<p>It starred Drew Barrymore as the titular pyrokinetic who has been living on the run with her father (played by David Keith). They&#8217;re hunted by sinister government forces who want to get their hands on the girl, personified in the film by Martin Sheen and George C Scott. A TV movie sequel followed in 2002 called <strong><em>Firestarter: Rekindled<\/em><\/strong>, starring Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell and Dennis Hopper. It was&#8230;not very good.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Teems,\u00a0veteran of acclaimed TV show <strong><em>Rectify<\/em><\/strong>, will be writing while Martha De Laurentiis is also on board as a producer.<\/p>\n<p>A veteran screenwriter, Goldsman made the jump into directing with episodes of <strong><em>Kings<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Fringe<\/em><\/strong> before making his feature debut with poorly-received New York fable\u00a0<strong><em>Winter&#8217;s Tale\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>in 2014. <strong><em>Stephanie<\/em><\/strong> stars Frank Grillo, Anna Torv, Harold Perrineau, Kenneth Choi and Shree Crooks in the title role, in which &#8220;An orphaned young girl with unworldly powers is taken in by a man and woman who claim to be her parents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t sound like too big a leap from there to <strong><em>Firestarter<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0does it? The original movie is solid, but we can&#8217;t help but wonder what might have been if John Carpenter had been allowed to make\u00a0it. They should definitely find a Native American actor to play John Rainbird this time, though, much as we love George C Scott and Malcolm McDowell.<\/p>\n<p>And so another Stephen King project rolls into production&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest genre news with the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Blum and Akiva Goldsman are remaking Firestarter, it&#8217;s been rekindled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":96579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[5690],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/firestarter_main.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}