‘Twister’ Director Says He Wasn’t Consulted About Sequel

There are plans to place out a new sequel to 1996’s Twister. Unfortunately, the unique movie’s director did not fairly get the memo.

The new movie, titled Twisters, has been in growth since a while in 2020, and the studio ultimately settled on placing Minari filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung within the director’s chair. The plot will supposedly observe the daughter of the storm chasers from the primary film, performed by Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton. Interest in tornados apparently runs within the household, and he or she decides to choose up her dad and mom’ mantle.

Jan de Bont, the director of the unique Twister, not too long ago instructed Inverse that he had solely heard of the sequel not too long ago and has not been contacted or consulted in regards to the venture. (“It made so much money for the studio. Sooner or later they would do it,” de Bont stated.)

While de Bont will not be concerned, he was assured the brand new movie can be very completely different from his, merely due to the modifications in filmmaking expertise since 1996. As he put it…

When issues fell from the sky, there have been actual issues falling from a helicopter. If you movie a automobile escaping a twister in a hail storm, it was actual ice that got here at us. It’s a film that can not be remade… That would by no means, ever occur once more. Every shot was a fortune. It would take three days to switch all that info onto movie.

 

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The director additionally identified within the interview that the wave of huge motion pictures directed by artists like Chung who made their title on smaller movies and rapidly graduate to main tentpoles is as a result of the studios and executives “want to be able to fully control them … ultimately, the studio is going to tell them what’s in the movie. I know that firsthand.”

While de Bont appears pretty cynical in regards to the venture, solely time will inform the way it pans out. Twisters is at the moment scheduled to open in theaters on July 19, 2024.