Tag: Twister
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‘Twisters’: Release Date, Cast & Everything We Know So Far About the Sequel
Hold on to your seats, storm chasers! A sequel to the epic disaster movie Twister is in the works, and it’s sure to bring a whirlwind of excitement. The upcoming film, titled Twisters, promises to be a new chapter in the adrenaline-fueled universe of storm chasing. With rumors swirling about the plot and casting choices,…
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‘Indiana Jones’ Producer Frank Marshall on the WGA Strike: ‘We Have to Figure Out a New Formula’
While much of Hollywood endures a forced vacation due to strike-related shutdowns, Frank Marshall has a different way to stay busy. Over the past three years, the producer best known for overseeing the “Indiana Jones” franchise with his wife Kathleen Kennedy has moonlighted as a documentary filmmaker. “I’m lucky that as long as I break…
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Supercell review – storm-chasing adventure makes for primal pleasure-giving
A teenage son wants to follow his a legendary storm-tracker dad’s footsteps – with the late lamented Anne Heche sparky in one of her final rolesEvery generation needs its own VFX-heavy action thriller about storm-chasing meteorology nerds and there hasn’t really been one since Twister in 1996. A supercell, by the way, is a mega-huge…
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Daisy Edgar-Jones in Talks to Join ‘Twister’ Reboot
Three years after it was announced to be in the works, the highly anticipated Twister reboot has begun naming the actors who will bring to life the next set of storm chasers in what has been described as “a new chapter”. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Normal People breakout Daisy Edgar-Jones, who was recently cast…
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Tom Cruise Helped Todd Field Save ‘In The Bedroom’ From Harvey Weinstein’s Scissorhands
If you don’t know the story of filmmaker Todd Field, who directed the critically-acclaimed “Tár” (our review) this year with Cate Blanchett, it goes a little bit like this. An actor in small indies, and some blockbusters (Jan De Bont’s “Twister”), Field moved up to writing and directing and knocked it out of the park…
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Tar Director Todd Field Helped Invent Big League Chew
Everyone in Hollywood had to get their start somewhere, and it’s always fascinating when we hear a story outside of nepotism. Actor Danny DeVito had worked as a hairstylist in a mortuary for a brief period of time, Christopher Walken was a former lion tamer, and legendary horror director Wes Craven cut his teeth in…
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Helen Hunt Says Studio Rejected ‘Twister’ Sequel Idea with ‘All Black and Brown Storm Chasers’
Helen Hunt celebrated the 25th anniversary of Jan de Bont’s massive 1996 disaster blockbuster “Twister” by revealing a sequel she pitched that never got made.During a recent episode of “Watch What Happens Live” hosted by Andy Cohen, Hunt said she showed interest in directing a sequel in June of 2020, right around the time a…
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‘Twister’ Director Jan de Bont Once Tried to Make a ‘Godzilla’ Movie Before the 1998 Version
There are so many movie projects that could have been — whole documentaries have been made about some of them, whole cult followings have risen up around axed movies — but every now and then, we get a failed film that might have spared us a little pain in the long run. One such one…
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‘Twister’ Reboot in the Works at Universal With Joseph Kosinski Eyed to Direct (Exclusive)
Universal Pictures is looking to reboot the classic tentpole “Twister,” and looks to have found a director to weather the storm.Sources tell Variety that Universal Pictures is developing a reboot of the 1996 blockbuster and is in negotiations with “Top Gun: Maverick” helmer Joseph Kosinski to direct.Frank Marshall will produce the pic and the studio…