Glen PowellandDaisy Edgar-Jonesare chasingTwisters.
In the first trailer, which debuted during the 2024 Super Bowl, the costars are among those fleeing the same terrifying tornadoes that made 1996’sHelen Hunt-starringTwistera critical and box office hit.
Joining Powell and Edgar-Jones in the action thriller areAnthony Ramos, Brandon Perea,Daryl McCormack, Maura Tierney,Kiernan Shipka, Sasha Lane, andDavid Corenswet.
In 2022, it wasannouncedthat aTwisterfilm was in the works that would follow the events of director Jan De Bont and writers Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin’s 1996 hit — in which Hunt and the lateBill Paxtonplayed a pair of storm-chasing scientists trying to collect data on a series of tornadoes.
The development ofTwistersfollowed an allegedpitching of a related movie from Hunt, which she said in a 2021Watch What Happens Liveinterview that studio executives dismissed. “I tried to get it made,” she said, with herBlindspottingcollaboratorsDaveed Diggsand Rafael Casal.
Hunt’s idea to write and direct a movie featuring “all Black and brown storm-chasers,”Diggs revealedlast April, didn’t come to fruition, “and the reasons that it didn’t happen are potentially shady … in the way that we know the industry is shady.”
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Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in 1996’s “Twister”.Snap/Shutterstock
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Soon after wrapping filming onTwistersin December, Powell, 35, clarified that the movie is “not a reboot” of the 1996 film.
“We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one. It’s a completely original story,” theTop Gun: Maverickstar said in an interview withVogue. “There are no characters from the original movie back, so it’s not really a continuation. … It’s just its own standalone story in the modern day.”
He added, “Humans-versus-weather is a very universal idea, how powerless we really are in the face of these cataclysmic forces.”
Twistersis in theaters July 19.
source: people.com
