Back in 2002, Syfy tested the waters for a TV sequel series to the 1984 film Firestarter with Firestarter Rekindled (pictured above). Despite a cast that included Marguerite Moreau, Dennis Hopper, and Malcolm McDowell; Firestarter Rekindled didn’t go forward as a television show. But now TNT is prepared to try again.
TNT has unveiled its development slate of eight potential TV dramas, including “The Shop.” Based upon Stephen King’s Firestarter and characters from his other stories, “The Shop” takes place 20 years after pyrokinetic Charlie McGee devastated the clandestine organization at the end of the original Firestarter film.
In “The Shop,” Charlie finds that she wasn’t as successful at destroying The Shop as she had hoped, when she is tracked down by a fellow Shop survivor named Henry Talbot who warns her that The Shop’s experiments never ended. Together, Charlie and and Henry attempt to take down The Shop once and for all.
Robbie Thompson (“Supernatural”) developed “The Shop” for television alongside executive producers James Middleton (“Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) and Jaime Paglia (“Eureka”).
The other genre inspired drama projects in development at TNT include “Breed,” which teams a female assassin and a FBI agent who are hunting down a race of violent supernatural creatures across the Pacific Northwest; “Fix-It Men,” a time travel story about a group from 2027 who are stuck in the present while attempting to change their cataclysmic future; and “President X,” a conspiracy thriller in which the President barely survives an assassination attempt only to awaken years later out of office as he attempts to discover who tried to kill him.
