Action-Adventure Twister Reboot ‘Twisters’ | Universal Pictures

[Deck Rickard]

Apparently that Luke Combs song from the trailer is one made specifically for the new movie and it's out Thursday. Also will be on the soundtrack. WILD how we're getting a new themed "movie album" for a change. Been a long time!

Shame we won’t be getting any new Van Halen on the album. Goddamn, we’ve lost so many great talents who worked on the first movie.

 

[Stringer]

Apparently that Luke Combs song from the trailer is one made specifically for the new movie and it's out Thursday. Also will be on the soundtrack. WILD how we're getting a new themed "movie album" for a change. Been a long time!

Black Panther and Across the Spiderverse weren't that long ago

 

[Lily Adler]

Black Panther and Across the Spiderverse weren't that long ago

Superheroes don't count, silly bean.

 

[psylockolussus]

I'm also one of those people who don't get reviving Twister, as a movie ip. I guess this is now a movie franchise because its more than 1 movie now. Compare to Ghostbusters, Beetlejuice and Top Gun – Twister doesn't really have an iconic character, so I am still baffled why Universal moved forward with this. I guess they really scraped their library and they thought recycling the Twister name would bring more attention compare to an orginal Ip??? But I've seen the first movie, it wasn't good. And the trailers for this new movie aren't exciting as well.

Though I can see this doing as much as Frozen Empire in North America. If it flops, I wouldn't be surprised too.

I wish Hollywood, would stop bringing back movie ips from the pre-2000s and turning them into a franchise. I enjoyed Top Gun Maverick and saw it in the cinemas. I saw the newer Jumanji films but only years later after they were released. I felt indifference about the newer Ghostbusters movies though I watched them out of curiosity. I don't care about Bad Boys, Beetlejuice and this Twister. And I've been seeing the posters for those three and I'm just like why in 2024?. Whats next? Armageddon Rises, True Lies Return, Austin Powers, Inspector Gadget, The Rock 2?

Edit: There's also Gladiator II, i know the first one came out in 2000 but still...

 

[The Shape]

Twister doesn't really have an iconic character

It sure does...

Spoiler

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Arnold Rimmer]

Black Panther and Across the Spiderverse weren't that long ago

I mean outside of those.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

Shame we won’t be getting any new Van Halen on the album. Goddamn, we’ve lost so many great talents who worked on the first movie.

Give me a new cover of Long Way Down, originally by the Goo Goo Dolls. I had the Twister novelization and used to listen that on repeat while reading.

Summer 1996 was a psychotic time to be an 8 year old.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Give me a new cover of Long Way Down, originally by the Goo Goo Dolls. I had the Twister novelization and used to listen that on repeat while reading.

Summer 1996 was a psychotic time to be an 8 year old.

I mean, Haste the Day has an awesome metalcore cover of it lol

 

[Deck Rickard]

Give me a new cover of Long Way Down, originally by the Goo Goo Dolls. I had the Twister novelization and used to listen that on repeat while reading.

Summer 1996 was a psychotic time to be an 8 year old.

YES! Good to meet a fellow Goo Goo Dolls fan. That was the song that got me into them. I had only heard Name before that song and then I heard Long Way Down and was like, “Wait… these guys rock?!” They put on a great live show too. I saw them a few times back in the day.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Pennywise]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Tickets are on sale now.

 

[blueharvest]

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

TV Spots:

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Twister Star Bill Paxton Had an Idea for a Sequel — Years Before Twisters

Before Twisters premieres in theaters, learn about Twister star Bill Paxton's original sequel idea featuring this infamous storm.

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Twister's Bill Paxton Had A 'Tougher' Sequel Idea In Mind Years Ago - SlashFilm

Twister star Bill Paxton once had an idea for a 'tougher' sequel inspired by the 1925 Tri-State Tornado disaster.

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Bill Paxton: "There's a tougher version of that movie that I think now [...] I've kind of designed it so that me and Helen [Hunt] would have a daughter, a junior in high school, but she's already dating a guy in college, and we'd kind of hand it off to them. There's a great story of the Tri-State Tornado I'd like to tie into it as well."

Bill Paxton: "The Tri-State is the biggest they've got on record. It came down over the Ozarks in Missouri on March 18, 1925, and it stayed on the ground for three and a half hours, which is a record. They call it the Tri-State because it started in Missouri, crossed the Mississippi River, and cut a path of destruction all the way across southern Illinois and across southwest Indiana, killing a bunch of people."

Funnels and fun: Helen Hunt shares memories from her 'Twister' experiences​

Funnels and fun: Helen Hunt shares memories from her 'Twister' experiences

Helen Hunt, who starred with Bill Paxton in the 1996 shot-in-Oklahoma film "Twister," will attend a special screening in Dallas in conjunction with her appearance at Dallas Fan Expo.

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Hunt, asked if she had any other highlights she wanted to mention from her Oklahoma experiences, again mentioned the people. She adored the people who were there. She is glad she got to spend time with folks like Alan Ruck, later to be in “Succession,” and Jeremy Davies (“who has been in some of the best indies around”) and Joey Slotnick, a “world-class theater and film actor.”

“Not only am I impressed by them, but they are fun people to hang out with and they’re like me,” she said. “They liked the same things as me and it was a ton of humor and it really was the bonding with the people was the thing that you take away.”

The sad development is some actors from the 1996 film, including Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman, are no longer with us.

“I can’t even bear it,” Hunt said. “I wish they were meeting me there (in Dallas).”

The interview began with Hunt being asked why people still love “Twister.” Her response: “I think it’s good.”

“And I say that not as a filmmaker, so I can have some humility about it,” she said. “My daughter had never seen it just because I just hadn’t shown her a lot of the things I had been in when she was growing up. And then, during COVID, a bunch of us thought ‘let’s get together outside on the lawn and look at it.’ So we did that. And we all looked at each other and said this is a really fun movie.”

Hunt said “Twister” holds up because it had “really good” writers and director Jan de Bont shows not just action heroes but real actors — everybody all the way down the line on both tornado “teams.”
“Todd Field, who is one of the great American directors we have, was one of the tornado chasers,” Hunt said.

“Phil Hoffman and Bill Paxton, nobody was better than the two of them, and so (de Bont) had great writing and great directing and he knows how to move the camera and create suspense. He could see that he didn’t want there to be weapons in the movie, and that’s rare in an action movie. There’s not a single gun in the movie. And at one point, there was a scene where Bill pulls out a knife to cut one of the straps on the machine in the back of the truck and he was like ‘I don’t want to do that.’ So I think he could sense that he was after a tone that was exciting and scary, but it had some amount of innocence to it. That’s exactly what a filmmaker does is he keeps an eye on things like that and he did.”

What did Hunt’s daughter think after seeing the film?

“She thought it was great,” Hunt said. “There’s kind of no way — I mean, maybe some people don’t like it, but I’ve never met them. It’s a pretty fun movie. It never stops and never let up. Jami Gertz was an unsung hero of that movie because she had the job of having to ask all the questions so that the audience could learn all the science of it. So and she and I got along great and spent a lot of time together. So it was fun.”

Dallas Fan Expo w/ Helen Hunt promoting Twister 4K and Universal's theatrical re-release of Twister in the run-up to Twisters:

'Twisters' Cast Talks About Shooting Crazy Tornado Scenes in Oklahoma

From working with real-life storm chasers to getting blasted with wind from a jet engine, the "Twisters" cast did it all while filming in Oklahoma.

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[Lily Adler]

Is there going to be "In Memory of Bill Paxton" in here.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Most Influential Climate-Disaster Thriller of All Time

"Twister" captivated America and sparked a subgenre. Its director thought it could never be remade. Can "Twisters" conjure the energy of the original?

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Chung recognizes how bizarre it must seem that his follow-up project is Twisters. He remembers seeing online commenters wondering what he could possibly get from taking on such popcorn fare, aside from a sizable paycheck. But his decision to make Twisters is a surprise, he told me, only to people who haven’t seen his work. “You know,” he said, smiling, “Minari is like a disaster movie, but on a smaller scale.”

in the original Twister, Jo Harding (played by Helen Hunt) is a professor who reunites with her estranged meteorologist husband, Bill (Bill Paxton), to test out his prototype for a new tornado-data-gathering device on a uniquely powerful cyclone. Part of the movie’s appeal is the infectious camaraderie of its ragtag crew of storm chasers (including two played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Alan Ruck). But Twister is a thriller, not a character study—backstory and dialogue are mostly in service to the action.

To get the job directing Twisters, Chung had to pitch his vision for the film to its producers, including one of his childhood heroes: Steven Spielberg. Chung explained that he imagined the movie as something more than a frenetic natural-disaster story. To him, the original Twister was a comedy of remarriage between Hunt’s and Paxton’s characters; he wanted Twisters to draw its own tension (and occasional levity) from the shifting interpersonal dynamics at its center.

The new movie centers on Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a meteorologist traumatized by a past brush with a particularly vicious tornado. When she returns to Oklahoma to help a former classmate, Javi (Anthony Ramos), on a mission to plant data-tracking radar devices near tornadoes, she struggles to overcome her fear of the storms that are now her life’s work. Little by little, her bond with Javi and her evolving friendship with Javi’s rival storm chaser, Tyler (Glen Powell), help her rediscover her purpose. “The twisters are there to challenge the characters, drawing out their fears and testing their courage,” Spielberg told me in an email. “Isaac and I talked about the power of these storms as background for the characters to explore their relationships.”

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Hunt has been doing the convention circuit from Detroit to Dallas to Indianapolis to Akron this year for screenings and Q&As for Twister.

'Twister' actor Helen Hunt on board for Q&A in Indianapolis

Helen Hunt, the Emmy- and Oscar-winning star of \

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‘Twisters’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Wants Nature to Put Us in Our Place

"I would love to see more stories … to show how small we are in comparison to the nature around us," says the Oscar nominee, who grew up in Oklahoma's tornado belt.

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What was your pitch?

Chung: The first part was basically convincing the studio that, on a technical level, I know how to make an action movie, because if you watch Minari, that aspect is not necessarily proven. The second aspect was what I wanted to do for the characters, for the story arcs and how they come together, and the theme of coming home and dealing with one’s fears. I wanted to bring a deeper sense of place, of Oklahoma — I grew up right on that Oklahoma border [with Arkansas] — and this idea of a character who left for the cities and then has to come home. I felt a deep personal connection because I had done that, I had left Arkansas.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

We got twins! Twiiiins!

...that is all.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Twister Director Jan de Bont Reflects on Film's Lasting Legacy

The 1990s marked a pivotal time for cinema, as boundary-pushing visual effects were making it possible to tell stories in more believable ways than the CGI available in previous years, though the thrilling impact of practical effects allowed for a compelling mixture of cinematic sensibilities...

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ComicBook.com: I have such a soft spot for the movie and now it is being revived with Twisters with different filmmakers, a completely different story. When you heard about how there was going to be another Twister movie, were you like, "What the hell are you going to do with it?" or was it more, "Oh, it's about time. This is such an untapped concept,"?

Jan de Bont: I think it is a little bit late. I think it should have been done 15 years ago, because then you might've still had a chance to do this combination of visual effects and special effects, and now it'll be much more visual effects, I'm sure. But that's being cost-effective. Those things are really ... It's so different by now. I think my movie would be really hard to remake, and why would you want to remake it anyway? What would you improve? Sometimes you have to also let things alone, or you have to really make it a real sequel, like a real continuing story, and not just a completely different story, but I don't know. I'm curious what [Lee Isaac Chung] made of it.

Twisters: Enter the Eye of the Storm in Behind-the-Scenes Look at Long-Awaited Twister Follow-Up

Twisters is something of a personal project for director Lee Isaac Chung. Having grown up on a farm in Oklahoma, the Oscar nominee behind critical darling Minari has firsthand knowledge of just how destructive tornadoes can be.

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EXCLUSIVE: Daisy Edgar-Jones Talks About Preparing For Twisters Role; Says Filming Was 'The Wildest Thrill Ride'

In an exclusive conversation with Pinkvilla, Twisters star Daisy Edgar-Jones spoke about working in director Lee Isaac Chung's film. The actress also discussed her character, Kate Carter, and how she prepared for the role.

www.pinkvilla.com

 

[lespaul59]

Why does a soundtrack need 29 songs? Over or under, 7/29 songs will be heard in the movie?

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Here's Why 'Twisters' Will Look Even Better Than You're Expecting

Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has revealed that the upcoming action blockbuster was shot on 35mm film, giving the movie a vivid look.

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Director Lee Isaac Chung charts a new course with Twisters – adobo Magazine

The infamous '90s franchise catches new wind with Twisters thanks to Director Lee Isaac Chung, Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Glen Powell.

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“When the producers came to me to direct this new chapter, I was truly honored and terrified to make the transition into tentpole, summer blockbuster territory. But the film embodies what inspired me to take on the challenge; I wanted to run toward my fears and not away from them.”

... “I thought of Minari as my last-ditch effort to make it work. If this was the end of the road for me as a filmmaker, I wanted to go out telling the one story that meant the most to me. Fortunately, it turned out so well that I didn’t have to quit, and better, it opened new doors for me,” he said. “Twisters was the type of film I dreamed I could someday do as a filmmaker. I always wanted to do an action movie. I always wanted to work on a big scale. And I love telling stories about multiple characters in which their relationships and fates are all intertwined. The ironic thing is that in many ways, Minari, while being small and personal, was a great precursor for Twisters, as it shares some similar elements, from an ending that’s something of a disaster movie on an intimate scale, to be being a story set in a part of America that I happen to know really well.”

... “From beginning to end, I returned to Twister, and I would ask myself: ‘How would Jan do this?’ Because he did it so well, and I wanted to honor the fandom around the first film,” Lee Isaac explained. “But I’ve always loved Steven Spielberg, as well, and the process of working with him has been so great. I went back and watched Jaws a few times, as well as War of the Worlds — movies about powerful forces of nature or monstrous things coming at you or looming above you. They captured some of the tone we wanted for our tornadoes."

 

[Kane52630]

Here's Why 'Twisters' Will Look Even Better Than You're Expecting

Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has revealed that the upcoming action blockbuster was shot on 35mm film, giving the movie a vivid look.

collider.com

Thank you Lee Isaac Chung.