In fact, it feels a little like the studio saw Stranger Things and said “Yeah, let’s do something like that!” which shouldn’t feel like the case at all since Firestarter came out over three decades earlier. It’s a tried and true trope, but the chemistry from the characters that propelled the books is completely missing in the film.
The original novel pulls the reader into their world of trying to get a grasp of their powers (telekinesis and firestarting, respectively) while the powers-that-be want to ultimately capture them. The main characters in the 2022 version, father-daughter duo Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and Andy McGee (Zac Efron) are bonded by their special powers, which have been brought on by an experimental drug. How does one make a bad adaptation and then do it all over again years later, yet worse? The world may never know. At this point, audiences are more afraid of the movie being bad than the actual movie itself.Īs it turns out, both the original 1984 Firestarter and the remake were completely unnecessary. But the list of dreadful King movies inches dangerously close to outnumbering their praised competitors with every passing year. The Shawshank Redemption, Carrie (the 1976 version, please God not the 2013 one), and Stand By Me to name just a few. Either way, a Stephen King oversight committee is needed to ensure that some of his adaptations are actually watchable. Whether it’s because King’s disturbingly vivid mind challenges the visual medium, whether writers and directors don’t fully comprehend his work and simply want to capitalize on his popularity, or King himself approves of the adaptations but fails to find that balance between page and screen. For the extensive number of fantastic Stephen King novels that have been released over the last half a century, there is an equal number of absolutely awful movie adaptations that have somehow completed the journey from pre-production to theatrical debut.
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