Twister sequel Twisters being developed at Universal with The Revenant screenwriter attached
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Twister sequel Twisters is being developed at Universal with The Revenant screenwriter on board
- Universal and Amblin Entertainment team up on Twisters
- The sequel follows Helen Hunt’s child and Bill Paxton’s characters
- Mark L. Smith’s screenplay is a hit with original producer Steven Spielberg
- The studio hopes Hunt, 59, will return to the movies
- The original was a huge hit and starred Philip Seymour Hoffman
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A sequel to the hit thriller Twister is finally in the works.
Universal Studios and Steven Spielberg’s production company Amblin Entertainment are currently developing the film, currently titled Twisters. Deadline.
The original disaster film, which was directed by Speed’s Jan de Bont and written by Jurassic Park writers Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, became the second-highest-grossing film of 1996.
Back for more: Universal and Amblin Entertainment are developing a sequel to the 1996 hit movie Twister titled Twisters, Deadline reported Tuesday
Twisters is being written by Mark L. Smith, who previously wrote the Leonardo DiCaprio survival film The Revenant, which earned the actor his Academy Award.
The film is expected to be a big-budget sequel, with Universal reportedly sharing funding for the film with Warner Bros., though Universal is in charge of creative details.
The film starred Helen Hunt as Dr. Jo Thornton, a meteorologist who studies tornadoes after experiencing a family tragedy related to one of them, and Bill Paxton as Dr. Bill Harding, who previously studied tornadoes with her.
At the beginning of Twister, which also stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Cary Elwes, Bill is separated from Jo and engaged, but he meets her in the midst of her tornado tracking to get her to sign their divorce papers.
It’s a hit: The original disaster film, which was directed by Speed’s Jan de Bont and written by Jurassic Park writer Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, became the second-highest-grossing film of 1996; Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton seen in Twister
Family Tree: Twisters is written by Mark L. Smith, who previously wrote the survival film The Revenant starring Leonardo DiCaprio, which earned the actor his Oscar; seen in 2015
Twister’s original star Bill Paxton died in 2017 after emergency heart surgery, but Universal is reportedly hoping to bring Helen Hunt, 59, back to the project.
The new movie will apparently focus on an adult child that Hunt and Paxton’s characters had, who has followed them through storm chasing ever since.
According to Deadline, Twister’s original producer Steven Spielberg was such a big fan of Smith’s new screenplay that he was able to speed up the sequel.
Return: Twister’s original star, Bill Paxton, died in 2017 after emergency heart surgery, but Universal is reportedly hoping to bring Helen Hunt, 59, back to the project; seen in march
Joseph Kosinski, who directed Top Gun: Maverick, currently the highest-grossing film of 2022, was initially set to direct, but he has left the project to direct a Formula 1 racing film starring Brad Pitt.
Dan Trachtenberg, who directed the popular Predator prequel Prey and 10 Cloverfield Lane, is reportedly in the running for the directing role, though he claimed on Twitter that he wasn’t making a Twister sequel.
Elizabeth Chai Vaserhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who directed the breathtaking rock-climbing documentary Free Solo, are also in the running, as is Travis Knight, who directed the animated Kubo And The Two Strings and the Transformers prequel Bumblebee.
Other filmmakers might be in talks.
New Generation: The new film will focus on the child of meteorologists played by Paxton and Hunt. Paxton passed away in 2017, but the studio hopes to get Hunt back; still from Twister