The official trailer for "Firestarter" was released in early February and tantalizes fans with the young Charlie's awful and awesome ability to will "a nuclear explosion" into being with nothing but her mind. As the trailer kicks off, we see Charlie's father, played by Zac Efron, helping her to control her powers with mindfulness exercises. He argues with other characters over how best to protect her, and warns that if she's ever captured, the people pursuing her will "put her in a cage."
But clearly, a power of this magnitude cannot be contained. The trailer gives us a good look at a scene in which Charlie's teacher, Tina, finds her hiding in the bathroom trying to contain her conflagratory powers. Tina touches the metal of the stall and it burns her fingers. The stall door bangs and shudders before getting blown clean off its hinges with a blast of flame. The rest of the trailer is a fireball of suspense, as The Shop, a government agency bent on capturing Charlie, tries to track her down. "She's the first of her kind," says Captain Hollister, The Shop's leader, "a real-life superhero." We see Charlie blast her would-be assassin, John Rainbird, into a wall, and she even smokes a crow into a heap of charred feathers. Whether the bird did anything to deserve it is unclear.
The trailer also confirms the release date for "Firestarter," as described earlier. Fans are sure to be burning with anticipation for the film's release to theaters and Peacock on May 13.
