How to Watch Universal’s “Firestarter” new Stephen King movie premiere

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Firestarter is now available for streaming online. Watch the new film adaptation of Stephen King’s iconic horror novel today with a Peacock subscription.

Based on Stephen King’s spooky sci-fi thriller from 1980, Firestarter the movie follows Charlie, a girl with pyrokinetic powers. Born with this extraordinary gift, she continuously struggles to contain her talent, protect her family, and evade those who wish to hold her captive. She’s 11 now, and her fiery powers are growing. After an explosive incident, parents Andy and Vicky take Charlie on the run—but with anger and pain constantly threatening to trigger her combustible abilities, the trio has to either learn quickly, or be overtaken by a clandestine federal agency.

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About the movie, from Universal Pictures:

In a new adaptation of Stephen King’s classic thriller from the producers of The Invisible Man, a girl with extraordinary pyrokinetic powers fights to protect her family and herself from sinister forces that seek to capture and control her.

For more than a decade, parents Andy (Zac Efron; Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile; The Greatest Showman) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon; Fear the Walking Dead, Succession) have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong; American Horror Story: Double Feature, The Tomorrow War) from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction.

Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family’s location, a mysterious operative (Michael Greyeyes; Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls) is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.

Starring…

  • Zac Efron
  • Ryan Kiera Armstrong
  • Sydney Lemmon
  • Kurtwood Smith
  • John Beasley
  • Michael Greyeyes
  • Gloria Reuben

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