Firestarter

The Pet Cemetery? Could have been.

Well, Firestarter is another one about a telekinetic girl.

With Drew Barrymore, yeah.

Yeah.

It's a Stephen King property.

Firestarter.

All of these things could be linked together in some...

And he has tied a lot of his books into that stuff, so...

Yeah, we

got to do all the Phantasms for 31 days.

I got Firestarter, but I realized after I got it home that I already have it, except the one that I have is one of those releases with the stupid label on the top.

So this one is... better This one was really cool Dragon slayer, that's awesome, which was in really good condition.

Where we left off last time, Carpenter had had a string of very profitable hit movies that did pretty well, both in terms of the box office and critical responses, but then The Thing in 1982 was a relative flop, and even though it would pretty soon become a cult classic, and even though it would eventually be reconsidered by the critics and would come to be thought of as one of Carpenter's best movies, At the time it was originally released, it was enough of a disappointment that Carpenter's career took a bit of a dive, even though a few of his best films were still to come.

Before The Thing was released, Carpenter had been contracted by Universal to work on a film version of Stephen King's Firestarter.

But after The Thing's release, Carpenter was basically fired from that project and replaced with another director.

However, Carpenter's next film would end up being another Stephen King adaptation, Christine.

This has an immediate fallout.

Carpenter's next film was with Universal, making Stephen King's Firestarter, and he was abruptly fired.

And Stuart Cohen's next project was canceled.

Carpenter says it took 10 years before he realized the film had started to turn into a cult classic.

His producer resume from that period is very interesting.

A couple of the Halloween movies, Two and Three, The Dead Zone and Firestarter.

The producer then approached Stephen King to write a three-tale feature based on the stories he'd acquired.

However, De Laurentiis was so impressed by Drew Barrymore's performance in his film version of Firestarter, he wanted a third story changed to an original tale based around the young Drew.

So what we've got are three stories, two from the Night Shift anthology and one original.

Cat's Eye, the film, was released, as I said, in 1985 to be exact, April 1985 in America.

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Hey, Jake, can we can we pull up the picture?

Before it was Screen Gems, it was DEG, which is Dino De Laurentiis Studios.

Yeah.

And they filmed all of the Stephen King stuff there, Firestarter.

dude their list of movies is crazy yeah and they filmed all that there and there was a band space next to there well it was actually just a storage unit a bunch of bands played on