Zac Efron goes on the run to protect his daughter in trailer for Stephen King's Firestarter remake

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Zac Efron returns as a father fleeing shadowy government forces in the first trailer for his upcoming remake of the 1980s thriller Firestarter.The 34-year-old heartthrob shows off his darker side in the video — released on Wednesday — which highlights his relationship with his wife (Sydney Lemmon) as they try to keep their daughter's deadly pyrokinesis a secret.When her powers prove to be too strong to keep at bay, the two go on the run while being pursued by sinister agents in the adaptation, which will be released simultaneously in theaters and on the Peacock streaming service on May 13.

Coming soon: Zac Efron stars in the first trailer for Firestarter, a remake of the 1984 adaptation of the Stephen King thriller First look: The trailer, released Wednesday, shows him trying to help his young daughter Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) learn to control her pyrokinesis while escaping shadowy government officialsThe trailer opens with a somber conversation between Efron, who plays Andrew 'Andy' McGee, and his daughterCharlene (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), who goes by Charlie.'Something feels weird.

Something's changing,' she says mysteriously.'You remember the tools we taught you, right?' he quizzes her. 'It happened again,' she replies nervously.The action cuts to her school classroom, where she tries to focus on inanimate objects like her pencils or her shoes to distract herself from noticing her classmates, who taunt her for being 'weird.'But the distraction only works so well, and a thermometer on the wall shows the temperature climbing rapidly.