Firestorm: The Nuclear Man

Firestorm: The Nuclear Man is a 2016 American action Superhero Film, based off of the DC Extended Universe superhero of the same name, premiering in theaters on June 28, 2016. The film is the first of three installments, followed by The Fury of Firestorm, and distributed by Warner Bros. Starring Ryan Kwanten, David Strathairn, Tyler James Williams, Lacey Cambert, Sarah Gadon, and Kim Rhodes, the film focuses on Ronnie Raymond and Dr. Martin Stein, when a nuclear explosion allows the two to merge into a superhero known as Firestorm, the Nuclear Man.

Plot
After Football practice, 39 year old Ronnie Raymond, a straight A, Football quarterback, is waiting for his father to pick him up, but his father's fiancee, Felicity Smoak, arrives instead, since his father was too busy. She takes him to S.T.A.R. Labs, where he's working for an internship, alongside his girlfriend, Caitlyn Snow and best friend, Jason Rusch.

S.T.A.R. Labs continues to work on the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. project, lead by Nobel prize winning physicist, Dr. Martin Stein, but when they finally activate the reactor, it malfunctions and S.T.A.R. Labs is evacuated. As soon as he makes sure Caitlyn and Jason are out safe, Ronnie rushes to help Dr. Stein, but the reactor explodes, unleashing a massive wave of nuclear, seemingly desinigrating Dr. Stein and demolishing the lab.

A few months later, Ronnie wakes up in the hospital to Martin Stein's voice, but only Doctors standing over him. When one of the doctors asks if he remembers his name, he responds: "Martin Stein", but quickly corrects himself. The doctors try to stop him, but he walks out and sees Felicity, Caitlyn, and Jason and tells them he wants to go home. He suddenly tells Caitlyn that he just heard Dr. Stein, but she tells him that Dr. Stein died in the explosion. At his house, as Felicity leaves the room, Ronnie hears Dr. Stein again, and suddenly his hands and hair begin steaming. He stumbles out of the house to his car and leaves, as Caitlyn and Jason follow him. When they stop they see Ronnie staring at a woman inside a house and he tells her that he can hear and feel Stein. Caitlyn tries to stop him, but he walks into her house and reveals her to be Clarrisa Stein, Dr. Stein's wife, and tells her that he's her husband and tells her personal things between her to convince her.

Jason and Caitlyn take Stein, inside of Ronnie's body, to the old S.T.A.R. Labs, where he explains the the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. Matrix must have merged them together, with Ronnie's body and Stein's mind, due to Ronnie being stronger and Stein being smarter. They then begin working on a device to seperate them. Caitlyn asks to talk to Ronnie, but Dr. Stein says that it doesn't work that way. When they finish the device, they use it and Ronnie and Stein are seperated and they both go their seperate ways

Meanwhile at the hospital, another scientist, Henry Hewitt wakes up after being injured in the explosion.

The next day, Ronnie returns to School hoping his life will go back to normal, but he still begins hearing Stein and begins feeling weaker. At his house, Stein also begins feeling weaker, when suddenly Ronnie arrives and they remerge. Back in Ronnie's body, Stein tells Caitlyn and Jason that the bond between he and Ronnie hasn't been broken and they reconfigure the Tachion device to reseperate them, but when they do Stein says that need to remerge every once and a while. While merged, the two begin learning how to control the power of the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. Matrix, inluding flying and generating beams of nuclear energy.

Meanwhile, Henry Hewitt returns to his own lab in the basement of his home and begins searching for blueprints. He loses his temper and his eyes glow red as a beam of energy shoots from his hand. Angry, he assumes that Dr. Stein stole it, saying he was always jealous of his genius.

That night, Stein speaks at a press conference about his recent return, when Henry Hewitt arrives and threatens Stein for the blueprints, but he tells him that he doesn't have them and Hewitt blasts his shoulder. Elsewhere, Ronnie is spending time with Caitlyn, when suddenly his arm begins hurting and realizes Stein is in trouble. Meanwhile, Stein continues to avoid Hewitt. When Ronnie arrives, they use the Tachion device to successfully merge, this time, with Ronnie in control of his own body, and Stein acting as a guiding consciouns in his head. After a short battle with Hewitt, he flees.

Ronnie and Stein meet with Jason and Caitlyn at S.T.A.R. Labs, where a videotape shows footage of Hewitt being effected by the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. matrix. Suddenly, Felicity arrives, as she had recognized Ronnie's face on the news and he explains to her what happened and why Hewitt is after Stein. Then she gets on the computer and hacks into Hewitt's computer to see the blueprints, much to Ronnie's surprise and she assures that she has a few skills of her own. Suddenly they hear a newsreport about Hewitt attacking a power station, so they set a trap, while Ronnie and Stein merge, now wearing a S.T.A.R. Labs safety suit, redesigned by Jason, who thinks of a name for them, Firestorm, and calls Hewitt, Tokamak.

Firestorm flies to the power station to confront Tokamak, who is stealing electromagnetic energy to power himself. They begin battling, as Tokamak grows stronger and stronger. After a long fight, Firestorm flies away as Tokamak follows. They lure him to S.T.A.R. Labs, where Tokamak continues to steal the energy, as he follows Firestorm inside, where Caitlyn activates a device that traps Tokamak in anti-magnetic rings of energy repelling his energy and defeating him.

The film ends with images of Ronnie and Caitlyn, and Martin and Clarrisa, as Firestorm continues to learn of their abilities, including manipulation of atomic structure, and Stein starting a job as a chemistry professor at Ronnie's High School.

In the mid-credits, Felicity continues to look through Hewitt's computer files and comes across a file, labeled H.I.V.E.

Cast

 * Ryan Kwanten as Firestorm/Ronnie Raymond
 * David Strathairn as Professor Martin Stein
 * Tyler James Williams as Tokamak/Henry Hewitt
 * Lacey Cambert as Caitlin Snow
 * Brandon T. Jackson as Jason Rusch
 * Sarah Gadon as Felicity Smoak
 * Kim Rhodes as Clarrisa Stein

Sequels
3 sequels where release in 2018, 2020 and 2022 with the same director entitled The Fury of Firestorm, Firestorm Brightest Day and Firestorm: The Committee