Firestarter Explained: Director Reveals Rainbird’s Real Power

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Firestarter (2022).] Director Keith Thomas and writer Scott Teems make a handful of changes to Stephen King’s source material for their 2022 Firestarter movie, but one of the biggest of the bunch has to be what they do with Michael Greyeyes’ character, Rainbird. The film focuses on Ryan Kiera Armstrong’s Charlie, a young girl with immense power who’s having a tougher and tougher time controlling it as she gets older. Her parents, Andy (Zac Efron) and Vicky (Sydney Lemmon), gained their abilities via an experiment involving a drug called Lot 6 conducted by a top-secret federal agency, The Shop. Now The Shop is after Charlie and they’ve got to do everything they can to protect her from their agents, including an especially notorious one, Greyeyes’ Rainbird. With Firestarter now playing in theaters and available to stream on Peacock, it’s time to share our interview with Thomas which includes details on how he came to the conclusion tha