Glen Powell is at present exhibiting off his main man chops reverse Sydney Sweeney in Sony’s romantic-comedy “Anyone But You,” and he’ll preserve getting the prospect to take action in 2024 with Netflix’s “Hit Man” and Warner Bros.’ “Twisters.” The latter challenge makes an attempt to show the 1996 field workplace hit “Twister” into a brand new franchise — however don’t name it a reboot, says Powell. There’s a motive Warner Bros. is billing the catastrophe film as “a new chapter” of the 1996 authentic.
“It’s definitely not a reboot,” Powell not too long ago instructed Vogue in regards to the “Twisters” film, which has been known as a “Twister” sequel, reboot and remake in varied press tales because it was first introduced in late 2022. “We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one. It’s a completely original story. There are no characters from the original movie back, so it’s not really a continuation. It’s just its own standalone story in the modern-day.”
Powell continued, “I don’t think anyone has brought up this movie in forever, but talking to people, they’re like, ‘That was one of my favorite movies growing up. That movie terrified me.’”
“Twisters” is directed by “Minari” helmer and Oscar-nominee Lee Isaac Chung, with stars Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack and Maura Tierney. Production on the catastrophe film was paused amid the strikes earlier this yr, however it has since resumed and the film is on monitor for its 2024 launch date. Plot particulars for the movie haven’t been revealed.
In his Vogue interview, Powell recalled a chunk of recommendation his “Top Gun: Maverick” co-star Tom Cruise as soon as gave him: “If you want to make movies of a certain size and scope and scale, you have to figure out what can connect with everyone around the world in every territory.” Powell mentioned “Twisters” checks off this field as a result of “humans versus weather is a very universal idea — how powerless we really are in the face of these cataclysmic forces.”
Starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Carey Elwes and Philip Seymour Hoffman, the 1996 authentic “Twister” made practically $500 million on the field workplace and acquired Oscar nominations within the visible results and sound classes. It was directed by Jan De Bont (“Speed”) from a screenplay by Michael Crichton, with Steven Spielberg govt producing. Hunt originally developed an concept for a correct “Twister” sequel, however she mentioned the studio rejected her to the purpose of not even taking a gathering.
“I tried to get it made,” Hunt mentioned again in 2021. “With Daveed [Diggs] and Rafael [Casal] and me writing it, and all Black and brown storm chasers, and they wouldn’t do it. I was going to direct it… We could barely get a meeting, and this is in June of 2020 when it was all about diversity. It would have been so cool.”
“There was a HBCU [historically Black college and university] where we wanted it to take place, and a rocket science club,” Hunt added. “In this one, they shoot the rockets into the tornado. It was going to be so cool.”
“Twisters” is about to open in theaters July 19, 2024 from Warner Bros.