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A sequel to 1996’sTwisteris on its way.
PEOPLE confirmed that Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment are working on a follow-up, titledTwisters, 26 years afterTwisterhit theaters. Mark L. Smith, who wrote 2015’sThe Revenant, has signed on to write the sequel, withJurassic World Dominionproducer Frank Marshall producing.
According toDeadline, the sequel will likely focus on Hunt’s character Dr. Jo Harding’s daughter with Bill Harding (Paxton), who takes after her parents' storm-chasing interests.
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Deadline also reported thatTop Gun: MaverickdirectorJoseph Kosinskipreviously dropped off the project to work on aBrad PittFormula One racing film for Apple, and the studios are considering multiple directors to helmTwisters.
It was reported thatPreydirector Dan Trachtenberg is under consideration,but the filmmaker himselfdenied that report in a tweetMonday. “To whom it may concern. I am not making a TWISTER,” he wrote on Twitter.
Varietypreviously reported in June 2020 thatUniversal and Kosinski were in negotiations to make a rebootofTwister. In 2021, Hunt, 59, said during an appearance onAndy Cohen’sWatch What Happens Livethatshe could not convince a studio to move forward with her ideafor a sequel that she wrote withDaveed Diggsand Rafael Casal that Hunt intended to direct.
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In November,TwistercostarCary Elwesreflected on working with Paxton, whodiedat age 61 in 2017, on the 1996 production.
“Bill really was that guy whose energy was infectious,” Elwes, 59, 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.”
Looking back onTwister25 years after its release, the actor added, “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
