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Hold onto your cows:a sequel to the 1996 megahitTwisterwill twirl into theaters in the summer of 2024.
Universal Pictures this week announced that the follow-up,titledTwisters, is set for theatrical release on July 19, 2024 — the same weekend Paramount’sTransformers: A New Generationis set to come out.
PEOPLE previously confirmed thatthe studio and Amblin Entertainment were working on the film. Mark L. Smith, who wrote 2015’sThe Revenant, is writing the sequel, withJurassic World Dominionproducer Frank Marshall producing. Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) will direct.
TwisterstarredHelen Huntand the lateBill Paxtonas two storm-chasing scientists trying to collect data on a series of powerful tornados.
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Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Plot details for the sequel are still under wraps but it will likely focus on Hunt’s character Dr. Jo Harding’s daughter with Bill Harding (Paxton), who takes after her parents' storm-chasing interests,Deadlinereported.
According toVariety, Universal described the sequel as “a new chapter from the 1996 movie.”
Hunt, 59, had long hoped to make a sequel to the film herself. In 2021, she revealed onWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohenthatshe could not convince a studio to move forward with her ideafor a sequel that she wrote withDaveed Diggsand Rafael Casal. Hunt had intended to direct.
Paxton sadly died in 2017at the age of 61.
Twister.Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Last November,TwisteractorCary Elweslooked back on the film, 25 years after its release, praising Paxton’s tenor on set.
“Bill really was that guy whose energy was infectious,” Elwes, 60, toldThe Hollywood Reporter. “He reminded you that you couldn’t take life seriously. That was Bill’s whole ethic. He took his work seriously, but he didn’t take himself very seriously.”
As for the film itself, Elwes said, “It was a long shoot; a very intricate and complex shoot because it involved a lot of special effects. I had a good time working on it.”
source: people.com
