FIRST WORD
TWISTERS
Minari director Lee Isaac Chung leads anew group of cyclone rangers in a standalone sequel to the 90s disaster film.
The original Twister - which starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as storm chasers on the brink of divorce, who are thrown back together during an extended spot of turbulent weather - was a massive box-office hit (the second-biggest of 1996) and a notable showcase for nascent digital VFX. Almost 30 years later, we’re getting another film set within that world, though ‘sequel’ might not be quite the right word for the plurally titled Twisters.
‘I consider it a new chapter in this story that [screenwriter/producer] Michael Crichton and [director] Jan de Bont and that team had created,’ Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung tells Teasers. ‘This is just a new chapter in that world that they created, and also that concept of scientists that are, in a very adventurous way, chasing storms and doing scientific research.’
The fresh faces here include Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) as cocksure storm chaser Tyler, with Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and Anthony Ramos (In the Heights) as Kate and Javi, young researchers with a background in studying tornadoes. The zeitgeisty cast also includes Daryl McCormack, Sasha Lane, Kiernan Shipka, Katy O’Brian and new Superman David Corenswet.
But it’s perhaps Chung’s involvement that most intrigues. To date, he’s best known for the Oscar-nominated Minari (for which he was also nominated in the Director and Original Screenplay categories). On paper, that gentle, low-key drama about an immigrant family couldn’t seem further from a full-scale disaster blockbuster. But Twisters belongs to a wo
