Hop within the truck, strap in Dorothy, and be careful for the flying cows. Hollywood is getting again into the storm-chasing sport with the movie that introduced the weather to the intense, Twister. Deadline experiences that after producer Steven Spielberg “flipped” out over a brand new script, his Amblin Entertainment is teaming up with Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. to make a sequel to the 1996 hit known as… anticipate it… Twisters.

The Twisters script was written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Overlord) and reportedly had Tron Legacy and Top Gun Maverick’s Joseph Kosinski connected to direct. He needed to drop to make one other film although and now the studios are within the technique of discovering a brand new director. Among the names on the shortlist are Prey’s Dan Trachtenberg, Bumblebee’s Travis Knight, and Free Solo pair Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vaserhelyi. Universal is hoping to have filming going by spring 2023.

According to the trade, the plot will middle on the daughter of Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton’s characters from the primary movie who has taken up the household enterprise of storm-chasing. The purpose is for Hunt to return and reprise her function. Paxton, in fact, tragically handed away in 2017.

Released in 1996, Twister was a monster hit and has saved its recognition within the years that adopted. I actually nonetheless quote it pretty steadily, whether or not it’s the crew speaking about “the finger of God,” Paxton’s character as “the Extreme,” or getting the Van Halen track “Humans Being” caught in my head. This brings to thoughts that, regardless of how good the script is, it will likely be very troublesome to match not simply the vitality of that first movie, however the supporting solid. Twister is all concerning the supporting solid. Cary Elwes because the villain; Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, and Todd Field as a number of of the chasing crew; plus Jami Gertz and Lois Smith—everyone seems to be simply so so good.

But if Spielberg cherished the script and everyone seems to be on board, a brand new Twister film with modern-day particular results? We are able to take the journey.

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