Zac Efron is totally new to the horror world, having never actually made a movie in the genre before, but he is getting one hell of an opportunity to jump in head first by playing the male lead in Firestarter.
Efron is reportedly digging deep for his performance in the film, and Keith Thomas has teased that the work may eventually change the way audiences look at him.
In the movie he will be playing Andy McGee, a husband and father who is forced to go on the run with his young daughter, Charlie, to avoid capture by The Shop – a government agency that wishes to conduct experiments on them because of their special psychic gifts: he has the power to mentally “push” people to do his bidding, and she has pyrokinesis.