It’s the wonder of nature, baby! Universal and Amblin Entertainment have announced that audiences can expect to return to the suck zone on July 19, 2024, as Twisters blows its way into theaters.
The sequel to the 1996 cult classic Twister, the film will be directed by Lee Isaac Chung, after word began to break in Hollywood late last week that the studio was closing in on a deal with the Oscar-nominated director, while Hollywood veteran Frank Marshall is also boarding the project – co-financed by Warner Bros. – as a producer. Chung is set to direct from a screenplay which has been written by Mark L. Smith, who co-wrote the adapted screenplay of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant. Chung’s work on Minari earned him a nomination for Best Director at the 2022 Academy Awards.
The original film, Twister, was a massive commercial success for Universal, wreaking havoc at the worldwide box office and earning a stunning $500 million worldwide. The film, written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, featured a separated couple who had previously chased storms together, and who reunite to finalise their divorce just as a perfect storm weather front comes through to give them the chance to chase a once-in-a-lifetime super cell EF-5 tornado in Oklahoma. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt played Bill and Jo Harding, the leads in the film.
