Firestorm is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Dean Semler and starring Howie Long, Scott Glenn, William Forsythe, and Suzy Amis.

Randall Alexander Shaye (William Forsythe), who had stolen US$37 million four years previously and hidden it in the forest, kills his cellmate and takes his identity as he and five other escapees go to retrieve the money.

Shaye gradually kills off his men in order to collect the money himself, starting with fellow prisoners Wilkins, a mapmaker, and Karge, a former wrestler.

He proceeds to kill Loomis, a former Air Force pilot, by pushing him off a cliff to make it look like an accident, and shoots Packer, a serial rapist, after he gets caught in a spring trap set up by Jesse.

Wynt tells Jesse he started the fire in order for a land developer to build a training school for firefighters but knew nothing of the prison break.

The screenplay for the film, written on spec by Chris Soth as his thesis for the MFA Screenwriting program at USC, was originally purchased by the now defunct Savoy Pictures.

Twentieth Century Fox picked up the script from "turnaround" and fashioned it into a more intimate, smaller budgeted movie as they were looking to only spend $20 million on the picture.

The website's consensus reads: "Firestorm failed to ignite ex-pro footballer Howie Long's career...or anything else for that matter.