{"id":34389,"date":"2022-12-15T19:20:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T19:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/lee-isaac-chung-is-in-talks-to-direct\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T19:20:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T19:20:37","slug":"lee-isaac-chung-is-in-talks-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/lee-isaac-chung-is-in-talks-to-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Isaac Chung Is in Talks to Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oscar-nominated director Lee Isaac Chung<\/strong><\/a> is in talks to direct Twisters<\/em><\/strong>. The extreme-weather catastrophe movie might be a sequel to the 1996 smash hit Twister<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n


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Variety stories<\/a> that Chung is in early talks to helm the movie, after producers winnowed down an inventory of prime administrators for the job. As Chung grew up in rural Arkansas, he had first-hand expertise with tornadoes and sheltering from their immense harmful energy, and that non-public connection proved to be the deciding think about accepting his pitch.<\/p>\n

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The movie will reportedly concentrate on the daughter of Helen Hunt<\/strong> and Bill Paxton<\/strong>‘s characters from the Jan De Bont<\/strong>-directed authentic, who has taken up the household enterprise of storm-chasing. Although producers have expressed curiosity in having Hunt reprise her function, they’ve but to achieve out to potential forged members. The authentic, which was scripted by the late Michael Crichton<\/strong>, was a box-office hit in the summertime of 1996, and served as a showcase for probably the most cutting-edge particular results of the day.<\/p>\n

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Chung’s characteristic debut, Rwandan genocide drama Munyurangabo<\/em>, debuted at Cannes, and obtained good notices; he directed two subsequent narrative options, Lucky Life<\/em> and Abigail Harm<\/em>, and a documentary, I Have Seen My Last Born<\/em>, earlier than attaining mainstream success with 2020’s semi-autobiographical Minari<\/em><\/a>. The film, which starred Steven Yeun<\/strong><\/a> because the patriarch of a Korean immigrant household making an attempt to determine a minari farm in rural Arkansas, was a success with critics and with audiences, grossing over seven occasions its $2 million price range worldwide and touchdown on a large number of year-end best-of lists. It was nominated for a slew of Oscars, together with Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Chung, Best Actor for Yeun, and Best Supporting Actress for Youn Yuh-jung<\/strong>, which she received. Following this, he was hooked up to direct an English-language remake of Your Name<\/em><\/a>, however he departed the challenge final yr.<\/p>\n

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RELATED: <\/strong>‘Twister’ at 25: The Bonkers Supporting Cast Holds Up Where the Effects Don\u2019t<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The script for Twisters<\/em>, which reportedly tremendously impressed Twister <\/em>producer Steven Spielberg<\/strong>, was written by Mark L. Smith<\/strong>. Frank Marshall<\/strong> will produce for Kennedy\/Marshall. Sara Scott<\/strong> and Jacqueline Garell<\/strong> will oversee for Universal Pictures, and Ashley Jay Sandberg<\/strong> will supervise for Kennedy\/Marshall. It might be launched by Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment; Warner Brothers, who launched the 1996 authentic, will co-finance.<\/p>\n

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Producers hope to start manufacturing of Twisters <\/em>within the spring. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.<\/p>\n

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