Akiva Goldsman is set to direct a new version of Stephen King’s Firestarter. The news was announced following a screening of Goldsman’s new film Stephanie at the Overlook Film Festival last night. The new adaptation will be based on a script by Scott Teems and released by Blumhouse Productions through Universal Pictures.
The film was made into a film in 1984 with Drew Barymore leading the cast. Here’s the official synopsis from the source material; King’s book, which was released three years previous in 1981.
First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers.
Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter.
Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to “act normal.”
Now the government wants its brainchild back – for its own insane ends.
Goldsman rewrote the screenplay to another King adaptation, The Dark Tower, which will be released later this summer.
