Jan de Bont created quite an iconic disaster film at the height of the genre’s craze with Twister.
But as the long-awaited sequel from Lee Isaac Chung and script by writer Mark L. Smith looms, de Bont doubts what the filmmakers and studios will do with Twisters.
In an interview with Inverse, de Bont notes he knew this day would come. “It made so much money for the studio. Sooner or later, they would do it, says the Twister director.
The filmmaker wasn’t consulted for the Twisters project, and he believes they’ll go with the new-school Hollywood approach to recreating the film’s titular storms.
“When things fell from the sky, there were real things falling from a helicopter. If you film a car escaping a tornado in a hail storm, it was real ice that came at us,” says the filmmaker. Adding, “It’s a movie that cannot be remade…that would never, ever happen again.”
He recalls bringing Twister to life, detailing the painstaking practical effects-filled process. He tells the outlet, “Every shot was a fortune. It would take three days to transfer all that information onto film. Right now, it’s fast, but in the beginning, it was super slow. And we had to be so careful to get the shots done before the movie opened.”
Little is known about Twisters, but it’s described as “the next chapter” in the Twister story. The film will include Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Brandon Perea, David Corenswet, Kiernan Shipka, Sasha Lane, Anthony Ramos, Daryl McCormack, and Maura Tierney.
Twisters is set to release on July 19, 2024.
