Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment are in talks with potential directors for Twisters, a sequel to the 1996 movie Twister. According to Deadline, Amblin founder Stephen Spielberg was enthusiastic upon reading the script, which The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith wrote. While Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski was on board to direct Twisters, he left the project after committing to the Formula One racing movie vehicle with Brad Pitt. Among the directors in talks for the project include Oscar-winners Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vaserhelyi (Free Solo), Dan Trachtenberg (Prey and 10 Cloverfield Lane), and Travis Knight (Missing Link and Kubo and the Two Strings). Other directors may be in talks for the Twister sequel.
Amblin’s ‘Twisters’ Serves as Sequel to 1996 Blockbuster ‘Twister’
While Twister doesn’t seem like a movie that merits a sequel, the film did gross Amblin and universal $494 million worldwide. The film starred Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton as a nearly divorced couple of storm-chasers tracking a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma. Sources say that the sequel Twisters is set to focus on the daughter of the two lead characters who has caught her mother’s storm-chasing bug. The hope among the producers is for Helen Hunt to return as the eccentric meteorologist who became obsessed with storms after her father was killed during a tornado. At a
Twister remains popular to this day. Gizmodo cites the film’s many quotable lines and memorable Van Halen music as what makes it stick. Whether the sequel Twisters will live up to that popularity is uncertain, but with climate change a major topic of discussion, it may be all too real of a movie for us all.
What is important is that Steven Spielberg of Amblin Entertainment likes the script for Twisters. The man knows what he is doing, so a Twister from Amblin sequel may be a surprise hit.
