Exit Joseph Kosinski and the idea of reboot! “Twister” will finally be entitled to a sequel 26 years after the first opus and the presence of Helen Hunt in the casting would be under negotiation.
In 2020, Universal was planning a reboot of Jan de Bont’s disaster movie, Twister. Produced by Frank Marshall, the regular collaborator of Steven Spielberg, the feature film was to be directed by Joseph Kosinski to whom we owe Top Gun: Maverick. But in 2 years the project has completely changed…
Thus, the director withdrew from the project in favor of the Formula 1 film worn by Brad Pitt for Apple TV + and the idea of a reboot was abandoned.
Twister will therefore be entitled to a sequel 26 years after its release and the presence in the casting of Helen Hunt, the star of the 1996 film, is under discussion.
On the staging side, no name has yet been announced, but Dan Trachtenberg, who recently directed Prey, Travis Knight (Bumblebee), and the Oscar-winning duo for Free Solo Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vaserhelyi have met with the producers.
According to sources from Deadline, the film would center on the daughter of the heroes of the first film Jo and Bill Harding, played by Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton. The latter would in turn have become a tornado hunter.
Twister had been a huge hit with $495 million worldwide. Written by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, the feature film followed the daily exploits of a group of scientists, tornado hunters in the United States. We followed Jo Harding and his team of meteorologists, adventurers and daredevils, all united around the same objective: to observe tornadoes on their chosen terrain.
With the topic of climate change and weather becoming increasingly topical, making a sequel to Twister makes sense today.