9 Sci-Fi Movies That Flopped Hard In 2022
6. Firestarter
Guess who's Zac? Zac again? Zac is back. Tell a friend. Seriously, tell everyone you know to avoid this awful film.
Not a Prodigy concert movie or a documentary about matches, Firestarter is a remake of a 1984 movie, which is itself adapted from a novel by Stephen King.
The story revolves around Charlie, a young girl with the ability to create fires using her mind. Efron plays Charlie's father who, along with her mother, also has telekinetic powers. Aww, isn't it nice to see a family bond over something?
Firestarter had the hook of being a Stephen King adaptation, having a big star in it, and getting contributions from all-time horror great John Carpenter. Why oh why then did it fail to make back its budget at the box office?
The film failed to meet any of its financial projections over its opening weekend and landed on just a $15million worldwide gross. Its production budget was $12million, but everybody knows films cost more than their production budget.
A certified flop and another big letdown for Efron, Firestarter ironically failed to light things up when it came to the box office.