Unlike Firestarter, Christine managed to pull in double its $10 million budget and gained mostly positive reviews from the critics, since going on to become one of the most loved King adaptations of the decade and a cult classic. Scott and David Keith and while the film was badly received by critics and only made a little more than its $12 million budget, the remake can hopefully avoid the "boring" tag that its predecessor was lumbered with.īlumhouse's other Stephen King remake is Christine, the story of the murderous 1958 Plymouth Fury that was originally adapted for screen by John Carpenter in1983. The titular character was famously played by Drew Barrymore in the 1984 adaptation of the novel, which also starred George C.
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The movie wrapped filming in July, but there is currently no release date for the film. Jason Blum serves as producer on the new version of Firestarter, starring Zac Efron, Ryan Keira Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Michael Greyeyes, and Gloria Reuben in the story of a young girl being tracked by the government for her pyrokinetic capabilities.
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In addition to the film, the novel also provided the premise for the 2002, six-season series that saw Anthony Michael Hall take over the role.
David Cronenberg's 1983 movie featured a stellar performance by Christopher Walken in the lead role of Johnny Smith, a man who suffers a near fatal car accident that puts him in a coma for five years, and as a result of brain damage, he awakes with the ability to see a person's future when he touches them. Like many of King's best known novels, The Dead Zone has already been brought to screens in two previous iterations. While Blumhouse is currently producing a new adaptation of King's Firestarter and Christine, Jason Blum recently revealed that there is one of the master of horror's novels that he wished he could have developed, and that would be the 1979 story, The Dead Zone.
As you would expect, when it comes to the dark side of cinema there is one author's work that any horror producer wants on their slate Stephen King. Jason Blum has become one of the go-to producers when it comes to horror movies, and Blumhouse has a number of big movies currently in development.
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