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“Promise me that you’ll never use your gifts to hurt people,” says Andy in the freshly-released trailer forHigh School Musical
star is talking to his young daughter, Charlie , a child with pyrokinetic capabilities who he hopes will use her powers in a responsible manner. For her part, Charlie seems to oblige. Like many otherworldly power-possessing individuals before her, Charlie takes a solemn oath. “I’ll only hurt bad people,” she tells him. “I promise.
According to a press release, the film follows Andy and Vicky , who, “for more than a decade…have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction.” Andy, ever the caring parent, “has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control.
The action picks up “after an incident reveals the family’s location,” exposing them to “a mysterious operative [who] is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all.” But his schemes might be harder to execute than he imagines. After all, the powerful Charlie “has other plans.”