Get ready for the tornado of the century! 28 years after Twister, Ian de Bont’s disaster movie will have a sequel.
The project, announced in 2020, was supposed to be directed by Joseph Kosinski, the director of Top Gun: Maverick, but the latter eventually left the adventure and made a Formula 1 movie with Brad Pitt. Therefore, Best Director Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung will direct Twisters for Minar. $200 million feature film author Mark L. Smith, co-writer of The Revenant.
Hitting our cinemas in 1996, Twister is directed by Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton. The latter plays several tornado chasers. Along with a team of meteorologists, adventurers, and daredevils, they tirelessly travel the roads of the Midwest to spot tornadoes. Based on the screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, the film was a huge success at the international box office with $495 million.
What is Twisters about?
Twisters is not supposed to be a Twister reboot, prequel, or sequel, nor is it a return of old characters. The studio describes the feature film as a “new chapter” that follows the adventures of a new group of Tornado Chasers.
As the topic of climate change and weather conditions become more and more relevant, Twisters should be leading the news.
Twister
in October 2022, Deadline announced that the film would be about the daughter of the first part’s characters, Jo and Bill Harding, then played by Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. The latter would in turn become a tornado chaser.
But last December, American actor Glenn Powell, who was seen in Top Gun: Maverick and was announced in the casting of Twisters, announced on the microphone. Vogue That Twisters will have an original story and not be related to the first movie.
It will be a single-player story set in the modern world.
“It’s definitely not going to be a reboot. We’re not trying to do the same story as the first one. It’s going to be completely original. This movie won’t feature any of the characters from the first movie, so it won. Strictly speaking, there won’t be a sequel. It’s going to be a single-player story set in modern in the world.”
The actor then adds that the film puts Tom Cruise’s advice into practice on the set of Maverick.
Glenn Powet in Top Gun 2
“He told me, ‘If you want to make great movies, you have to understand what connects his story to the world and what makes it universal.’ “Twisters ticks that box because men battling the weather is something universal. The film shows that people are helpless in the face of such cataclysmic forces.”
Who will be the heroes of Twisters?
British actress Daisy Edgar-Jones was chosen as the heroine of this feature film. Known to the general public thanks to the Irish mini-series Normal People, in which she played Paul Mescall, the future hero of Gladiator 2, Daisy Edgar-Jones next appeared in the TV series War of the Worlds, adapted from the HG Wells classic, horror. comedy Fresh and adaptation of the bestseller Where the Crayfish Sing.
In Twisters, Daisy Edgar-Jones will play a former storm chaser who, after surviving a deadly tornado, now works in an office. But the latter will be forced to return to his first love.
Daisy Edgar-Jones in Where the Crabs Sing
It will be surrounded Glenn Powell, a very popular actor in Hollywood, after Anthony Ramos’ performance in Top Gun: Maverick, recently cast Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts, Kiernan Shipka, Netflix series Sabrina, David Korenswet, future Superman. The new DCU, discovered by Sasha Lane in American Honey, Cathy O’Brian (The Mandalorian) or even Maura Tierney, is currently featured in Iron Claw. We do not yet know what roles these actors will play.
Will Helen Hunt return?
If there are rumors of a possible return in 2022Helen Hunt Subsequently, a statement from Glenn Powell suggested that the actor would not appear in Twisters. Especially since the latter would not be on good terms with the studio.
In April 2023, variety It was revealed that Helen Hunt and Dave Diggs, both stars of the Blindspotting TV series, were working on a script for a Twister sequel, which Hunt was to direct, but the studio rejected the idea.
The actor states: “I tried to do that. Dave, Raphael and I wrote a script where the storm chasers were black, but they didn’t want to produce it. I had planned to shoot a film, but we barely managed to meet. At a time when it’s finally about diversity, that would be great. Also, I was planning on launching rockets into the tornado. It would be really cool.“
Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in Twister
Visually different film from before
Jan de Bontsaid the director of the 1996 film Reverse There was no consultation for Twisters.
According to him, this feature film will be completely different from his film, especially since the technology of visual effects has developed a lot in 28 years.
He states: “While things fell from the sky, they were real things that fell from a helicopter. When we filmed a car sheltering from a tornado during a hail storm, it was real ice that hit us. It’s a movie that can’t be remade… It’ll never happen again.”.
TwistersThe film, which wrapped last December, is slated to hit theaters on July 17, 2024.
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