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FIRESTARTER, Starring Zac Efron, Begins Production In Canada – Watch The Video From Blumhouse – We Are Movie Geeks

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FIRESTARTER, Starring Zac Efron, Begins Production In Canada – Watch The Video From Blumhouse

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Blumhouse announced today via social media that the company’s film Firestarter, from Universal Pictures, Blumhouse and Weed Road Productions will begin production today in Canada.

Zac Efron (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, The Greatest Showman) and Michael Greyeyes (Wild Indian, Rutherford Falls, True Detective) have been announced as being cast in the film.

Firestarter is being directed by Keith Tomas (The Vigil) and the script was adapted by Scott Teems (Halloween Kills, Rectify).

The film is based on an adaptation of Stephen King’s classic sci-fi thriller novel “Firestarter.”

Jason Blum and Academy Award® winner Akiva Goldsman will produce. Martha De Laurentiis, who was an associate producer on the 1984 adaptation of Firestarter starring a young Drew Barrymore, will executive produce.
Logline: A young girl develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants to harness her powerful gift as a weapon.

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