Glen Powell clarifies that Twisters is simply a "standalone story" in the Twister cinematic universe

"It's definitely not a reboot," Powell asserted, while also making it clear that the 2024 film won't be a "continuation" of the original movie

By William Hughes  |  December 28, 2023 | 12:47am
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Glen Powell clarifies that Twisters is simply a
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Look, we gotta be careful here. If anyone in this Newswire even tries to suggest that upcoming film Twisters is a reboot of Jan De Bont’s 1996 cow-displacement epic Twister—or, god help us, a continuation of same—we are absolutely going to hear about it from Glen Powell. He’s mid-press tour right now, too (promoting his new romantic comedy Anyone But You), and we have to assume that has the Top Gun: Maverick star in full hackles-up mode, vis a vis people spreading information about his future tornado movie.

This is per an interview Powell gave to Vogue this week, in which he revealed that he’s just finished filming on the… follow-up? Can we say follow-up? Which was directed by Minari’s Lee Isaac Chung. And what is Twisters? Well, it’s not a reboot, and it’s not quite a continuation, but, man… “It’s definitely not a reboot,” asserts Powell in the interview. “We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one. It’s a completely original story. There are no characters from the original movie back, so it’s not really a continuation. It’s just its own standalone story in the modern-day.”

As best we can gather, then, Twisters has the name it has because, hell, if you want to make a movie about tornadoes fucking things/people/livestock up, and you own the brand name Twister, why wouldn’t you slap that name on it? We never would have pitched Twister as an anthology series in the making, but if it gets us one visually impressive tornado movie ever 30 years, why not? (If it was us, we’d still have some calls out to a Helen Hunt or an Alan Ruck for potential cameo purposes, but maybe this particular bovine’s got to fly on its own.) Twisters is currently aimed at a July 2024 release date; Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos co-star.

 
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