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June 25th, 2020, 9:10 am

Twister reboot in the works at Universal with Joseph Kosinski eyed to direct

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2 00:00:11,330 --> 00:00:12,350 and it's moving fast.
3 00:00:12,350 --> 00:00:13,183 Drive.
4 00:00:15,619 --> 00:00:16,452 Look out!
5 00:00:18,328 --> 00:00:19,603 Guys, you gotta get outta there.
6 00:00:19,603 --> 00:00:21,477 Do you hear me?
7 00:00:34,490 --> 00:00:36,293 That's Tyler Owens.
8 00:00:36,293 --> 00:00:38,570 Calls himself Tornado Wrangler.
9 00:00:38,570 --> 00:00:39,637 If you feel it-
10 00:00:39,637 --> 00:00:41,054 Chase it!
11 00:00:42,104 --> 00:00:43,700 I said if you feel it-
12 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:44,533 Chase it!
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15 00:00:55,430 --> 00:00:56,543 She's gorgeous.
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17 00:01:00,830 --> 00:01:02,030 We never had a chance.
18 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:05,593 You want one?
19 00:01:12,225 --> 00:01:14,392 You don't face your fears...
20 00:01:19,430 --> 00:01:20,263 You ride 'em.
21 00:01:28,700 --> 00:01:30,517 We got twins, twins!
22 00:01:49,220 --> 00:01:50,053 Was that it?
23 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:51,793 Nope.

This summer, the epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, seat-gripping, big-screen thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous—and destructive—forces.

From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar® nominated writer-director of Minari, Twisters stars Golden Globe nominee Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing, Normal People) and Glen Powell (Anyone But You, Top Gun: Maverick) as opposing forces who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.

Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos, In the Heights) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.

As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Twisters features an exciting new cast, including Nope’s Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane (American Honey), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), Nik Dodani (Atypical) and Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy).

From Amblin Entertainment, Twisters is directed by Lee Isaac Chung and is produced by Oscar® nominee Frank Marshall (Jurassic and Indiana Jones franchises) and by Patrick Crowley (Jurassic and Bourne franchises). The screenplay is by Mark L. Smith, writer of the Best Picture nominee The Revenant. Twisters will be distributed by Universal Pictures domestically and by Warner Bros. Pictures internationally.

"What was essential to me was that it always felt like in that first movie, which didn't necessarily feel like a disaster movie," Chung says of what he considered essential to make his new movie feel related to Twister. "To me, it felt like an adventure movie, and I always loved how that movie inspired a generation of meteorologists and people who were interested in science and weather just because it made that study feel like it was an adventure. That's something that I wanted to retain with this one."

Edgar-Jones promises "loads of nods to the original," and was thrilled to work with many of the same consultants who served on the 1996 film and would share stories of shooting with that all-star cast. But she also believes Twisters "really feels like a new chapter in a really brilliant way. There's new technology, there's new ways to understand these crazy weather systems and tornadoes — so we're bringing it up to date with what the state of the world is now."

The trailer sets Tyler up as an adversary of sorts who comes around to work with Edgar-Jones' Kate, whom the actress says has an "incredible arc. I love her fierceness and her depth."

"Lee Isaac Chung is one of the best filmmakers to really guide the emotional storyline of this movie and the way that he's adapted to the scale of this without losing any of that emotion, I think it's incredibly impressive."