Let the reader beware, for Firestarter is Stephen King at his most mesmerizing. Andy and Charlene 'Charlie' McGee are a father/daughter pair on the run from a government agency known as The Shop.
What they don't take into account is that even a child can know the pleasure of the whip hand and the satisfaction of revenge. Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. And once they get her they plan to use Charlie's capacity for love to force her into developing a power as horrifyingly destructive as it is seductive. Her parents have taught her to control her pyrokinesis, the ability to set anything-toys, clothes, even people-aflame.īut The Shop knows about and wants this pigtailed "ultimate weapon." Shop agents set out to hunt down Charlie and her father in a ruthless and terrifying chase that ranges from the streets of New York to the backwoods of Vermont. Now that Charlie is eight, she doesn't start fires anymore. Two years after that their little girl, Charlie, sets her teddy bear on fire. In 1969 Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson participated in a drug experiment run by a veiled government agency known as The Shop. He looked down at her and saw her face, so small, now so strange. The hair on his arms suddenly began to stir and move, like kelp in an invisible tide. In publisher’s dust jacket, 13. Solid text block, foxing to fore edge, toning to spine, small stain at top of front cover, a very good example. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Black hardcover, red cloth spine, title in gilt on spine. Alas, even when Barrymore's character is turning her tormentors into crispy critters, the young actress exudes all the threat of someone trying to decide between ice cream flavors."Andy could feel something building in the air, building up around Charlie like an electric charge. First edition of Firestarter by Stephen King. While Sheen and Scott portray the film's villains, Charlie is still the movie's monster, the character capable of committing mass murder with her mind. The director is little helped by Barrymore, whose E.T.-era button-cuteness ill-serves this particular project. Lester capably delivers the sight of stuntmen wandering around on fire but allows the film to sag badly once Charlie and Andy are captured and taken to the Shop's headquarters, a mansion whose tony nature is as inexplicable as Scott playing a Native American. Lester, who had brought the world the 1979 disco film Roller Boogie and would go on to direct 1985's Arnold Schwarzenegger-starring Commando. De Laurentiis' company also produced Firestarter, which was originally to be directed by John Carpenter, before a slashing of the budget caused the Halloween filmmaker to depart the project and set his sights on adapting another King novel, Christine.
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