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“Twisters” has a lot going for it. It’s a legacy sequel to a classic ‘90s disaster film. It stars Glen Powell, one of the hottest rising stars in entertainment right now, and is directed by Lee Isaac Chung, hot off his breakout autobiographical hit, “Minari.” But now that many audiences have gotten the chance to see the film for themselves, they all can’t help but ask one question. “Where the f*** is the kiss?”

To explain, while romance may not be at the forefront of this storm-chasing blockbuster, there is an undeniable connection between Daisy Edgar-Jones’ Kate Carter and Powell’s Tyler Owens, one that leads Tyler to follow Kate into an airport at the end of the film before she potentially leaves his life forever. However, before they’re able to confirm their attraction with a kiss, they’re pulled away yet again by another storm.

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Nearly 30 years later, we now get Twister 2, cunningly entitled Twisters. But you know what? There’s more to this than a bit of wind.

When, in 1983, Anthony Perkins reprised the role of Norman Bates for a sequel to Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Psycho, there was much scoffing. On the one hand: a sequel to Psycho! Are you mad? On the other, it’d been – get this – 23 years since the first film came out. What kind of gap between a first and second film was that? Further madness.

Twisters, then.

Twenty eight years after Jan de Bont’s weather-em-up Twister threw cows at the screen and had the brilliant duo of Helen Hunt and the much-missed Bill Paxton chasing tornados, Hollywood has spat out a sequel.

Why? Well, money.

It’s clearly a project that follows the sequel template, as the title tells you. You got one twister in the first film,...

We're fond of pointing out that Hollywood is run by a bunch of risk-averse studio executives who take any opportunity they can to double down on the success of an existing property instead of taking a chance on something original. But while that is indeed the pervasive mentality dominating the mainstream American film industry right now, there are a handful of times where studios have not been able to immediately go back to the well and milk an idea dry. The most recent and high-profile example is "Barbie," which was a global sensation and the highest-grossing film of 2023 (not to mention the highest-grossing movie in Warner Bros. history), and as of this writing, we still haven't heard anything concrete about a possible "Barbie 2."

Another example: Jan de Bont's "Twister" was the second highest-grossing film of 1996, but it's taken almost 30 years for a sequel to make its way to theaters.

Jan de Bont's "Twister" might be regarded nowadays as one of the most thrilling blockbusters of the 1990s, but when it hit theaters on May 10, 1996, the first, heavily-hyped summer tentpole out of the gate that year, it felt like a bit of a miss. Responses varied, mostly because you really needed to see the film on a massive screen in a theater outfitted with top-grade sound –- this way, the visual/aural sensation concocted by de Bont and the best of the best at Ilm and Skywalker Sound could blow you up, up and out of the cineplex, thus distracting you from the bland characters and preposterously thin plot. (Helen Hunt's character needs to face and survive an F5 tornado to exorcize her childhood demons.)

Actually, there's a world in which this is an awesomely preposterous plot, but "Twister" offers only mechanical blockbuster storytelling. The film –- from...

Spring is here. Which means the midwest is more susceptible to tornadic activity. One of the most beloved storm-chasing films is the 1996 Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton classic Twister. Earlier, it was announced that a sequel was in the works involving Jo and Bill’s daughter. Daisy Edgar-Jones, known for Where the Crawdads Sing and Normal People, is slated to star. However, the plot has been changed and will no longer involve a spin-off of any of the characters from the original film. Deadline is now reporting that joining Edgar-Jones for the new disaster film is one of the breakout stars of Top Gun: Maverick, Glen Powell.

Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment will be once again producing the sequel, with Frank Marshall returning to produce through his and Kathleen Kennedy’s production company. The story now involves Edgar-Jones as a former storm chaser who works a desk job after surviving a disastrous tornado encounter.

A follow-up to the 1996 disaster film Twister (watch it Here) has been in and out of development for over twenty-five years. A few months ago, it was announced that one is finally going to go into production, with Minari director Lee Isaac Chung at the helm and Daisy Edgar-Jones of Fresh and Where the Crawdads Sing in the lead. And while that film, titled Twisters, heads toward its July 19, 2024 release date, Insider got some information on the demise of the Twister 2 that Twister star Helen Hunt was recently developing with Grammy and Tony winner Daveed Diggs and his Blindspotting co-writer Rafael Casal.

Diggs told Insider, “I’m not going to get into it, mostly because I’m probably going to misremember things. But all I’ll say is there was an opportunity where we were talking about that, and it didn’t happen, and the reasons that it didn’t happen are potentially shady.

The mid-90s gave us a lot of iconic movies that remain very popular today. Pulp Fiction, Independence Day, Titanic, they’re all worthy of their continued popularity. But one that’s perhaps slipped slightly under the radar despite its initial success is 1996 disaster flick Twister.

The film starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as estranged meteorologists caught in a major tornado outbreak, with Philip Seymour Hoffman also featured in a supporting role. Though its critical reception was mixed, it became the second-highest-grossing movie of that year.

No sequel was ever made despite its success though, and that’s a fact that fans would love to see change. Yep, there’s been something of a social media campaign to get a Twister 2 off the ground lately, though there appears to be a clear divide emerging thanks to the main problem a sequel would face, as you can see below:

I unapologetically love Twister,...

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