There are plans to place out a new sequel to 1996’s Tornado. Sadly, the unique movie’s director did not fairly get the memo.
The brand new movie, titled Twisters, has been in improvement since a while in 2020, and the studio ultimately settled on placing Minari filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung within the director’s chair. The plot will supposedly observe the daughter of the storm chasers from the primary film, performed by Helen Hunt and the late Invoice Paxton. Curiosity in tornados apparently runs within the household, and he or she decides to select up her mother and father’ mantle.
Jan de Bont, the director of the unique Tornado, just lately advised Inverse that he had solely heard of the sequel just lately and has not been contacted or consulted concerning the mission. (“It made a lot cash for the studio. Eventually they’d do it,” de Bont mentioned.)
Whereas de Bont is just not concerned, he was assured the brand new movie could be very completely different from his, merely due to the modifications in filmmaking expertise since 1996. As he put it…
When issues fell from the sky, there have been actual issues falling from a helicopter. When you movie a automobile escaping a twister in a hail storm, it was actual ice that got here at us. It’s a film that can’t be remade… That will by no means, ever occur once more. Each shot was a fortune. It could take three days to switch all that info onto movie.
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The director additionally identified within the interview that the wave of huge films directed by artists like Chung who made their title on smaller movies and rapidly graduate to main tentpoles is as a result of the studios and executives “need to have the ability to absolutely management them … finally, the studio goes to inform them what’s within the film. I do know that firsthand.”
Whereas de Bont appears pretty cynical concerning the mission, solely time will inform the way it pans out. Twisters is presently scheduled to open in theaters on July 19, 2024.
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