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Firestarter Reviews Blast Dull & Disjointed Stephen King Adaptation
The reviews are in for Blumhouse's Firestarter are in, and they are not thrilled about the film's lack of spark. The Firestarter franchise, which is now surprisingly robust, began its life as a 1980 novel by Stephen King, which follows the exploits of Charlie McGee, a young girl with pyrokinetic powers, as she and her father Andy run from an experimental government organization known as The Shop that gave him his own powers, which he passed on to his daughter. That book was adapted into a film starring Drew Barrymore and David Keith in 1984, which King later called "one of the worst of the bunch." That film was followed up in 2002 by the miniseries sequel Firestarter: Rekindled.