Of course, that’s going to lead to a brutal display of power. This “Firestarter” opens with Charlie in school, not on the run like in the original. There is no better recent example of this than “Firestarter,” a film that goes through the motions with such apathetic predictability and pure cinematic laziness that you may want to set whatever device you’re watching it on ablaze. So often remakes feel more like contractual requirements than artistic explorations or updates of timeless themes. And yet, once again, inevitability doesn’t equal creativity. King’s work would inspire generations-Elle in “Stranger Things” owes a great deal to Charlie, for one-which made a remake of this 40-year-old tale of pyromania inevitable. There’s nothing scarier than an out-of-control child. Charlie, played by Drew Barrymore in the 1984 film and Ryan Kiera Armstrong in this one, is cut from similar cloth as Danny from “ The Shining” and the title character in “Carrie”-people who discover they’re not like normal kids. The Stephen King novel on which the new version of “Firestarter” is based was published in 1980 during a phase of the horror master’s career in which the writer seemed fascinated by kids with inexplicable powers.
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