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Stephen King’s shadowy organisation The Shop, the villains in his early novel Firestarter and mentioned in some of his other books and TV projects, is coming back in a new sequel to Firestarter from TNT.

According to the release, the Shop’s operations weren’t destroyed when the young pyrokinetic Charlie McGee (as played by Drew Barrymore, right, in the film) exposed their operations at the end of Firestarter. Twenty years after bringing the organization to its knees in a blaze of fire, Charlie has been tracked down by one of its former members, Henry Talbot. Talbot introduces Charlie to a group of people just like her, all products of The Shop with their own unique abilities. It turns out The Shop is very much alive, bigger and badder than ever, and its dark experiments are unleashing terrifying new entities on the world. It’s now up to Talbot, Charlie and the rest of the team to find The Shop and destroy it for good.

Supernatural’s Robbie Thompson is penning the drama, which he will produce with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’ James Middleton and Eureka’s Jaime Paglia.

This isn’t the first attempt to produce a sequel to Firestarter; a Syfy miniseries in 2002 Firestarter: Rekindled had a very similar ‘grown-up Charlie McGee’ premise although that resurrected the character of John Rainbird from the book. More details on that can be found here
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