When phrase first broke that Twister was getting a new film some 25 years after the unique grew to become a shock blockbuster, it was described as a sequel — and supposedly the plan was to have Helen Hunt reprise her position from the primary movie as storm chaser Dr. Jo Harding.
But the information of one other actor becoming a member of the brand new film’s solid additionally brings phrase that it’s not a sequel and that none of the unique Twister solid is predicted to look in it. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the brand new Twister — which is titled, Twisters, duh — is “not a sequel, nor is it expected to bring back old characters. The studio is describing it as a ‘new chapter.’”
READ MORE: The Best Summer Blockbusters of All Time
Instead, Daisy Edgar-Jones, greatest recognized from the movie adaptation of Where the Crawdads Sing, will star within the movie. Her unnamed character is described as “as a former storm chaser who, after surviving a disastrous tornado encounter, now works a desk job. However, she will soon be forced to — you guessed it — go out into the breach once more.” The film is being directed by Lee Isaac Chung, who made the terrific indie drama Minari (and, in a curious little bit of timing, this week’s episode of The Mandalorian), and written by Mark L. Smith, who was the screenwriter of The Revenant.
Besides Hunt, the unique Twister starred Bill Paxton as Jo’s estranged husband (and fellow storm chaser) Bill Harding. Sadly, Paxton handed away in 2017. Another of the important thing roles within the authentic movie was performed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died in 2014. That alone, would have been a enormous impediment to any try at a Twister legacyquel. Maybe below these circumstances a “new chapter” is the precise technique to go.
Twisters is presently scheduled to be launched in theaters on July 19, 2024.
The Worst Billion-Dollar Blockbusters
All of those films grossed greater than $1 billion on the field workplace. And all of them stink.
Discussion about this post