Glen Powell promises that the new Twister will not be a reboot
“We are not trying to repeat the same story as in the first,” assures the actor, who also says he is following good advice from Tom Cruise so that this blockbuster is universal.
In the summer of 2024, Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone but you…) will return in Twistersannounced as a direct sequel to Jan de Bont’s film (Speed) with Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Carey Elwes and Philip Seymour Hoffman, released in cinemas in 1996.
This time it’s Lee Isaac Chung, known for Minariwhich stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack and Maura Tierney.
The last news was that the film was supposed to be linked to the original, Deadline having announced that it would follow Hunt’s character’s daughter in these new misadventures. But Powell assures, however, that the team will not fall into repetition.
“It definitely won’t be a reboot, he promises Vogue. We are not trying to repeat the same story as in the first. It will be completely original. There won’t be any characters from the first film in this one, so it won’t strictly speaking be a sequel. It will be a single-player story set in the modern world.”
He adds that the concept of Twisterswhich benefited from a comfortable budget from Universal and Warner Bros., will follow the advice given to him by Tom Cruise on the set of Maverick.
“He told me : ‘If you want to make films of a certain ambition, you will have to understand what connects it to the world, to people from all territories.’ Twisters checks this box, since men vs. the weather is a perfectly universal idea. The film will show how we have no power in the face of such cataclysmic forces.” he explains.
The release of Twisters is set for mid-July 2024. The project was a little delayed with the actors’ strike, but filming was finally completed before the end of the year.
Before that, we will find Glen Powell with Sidney Sweeney in the romcom Everything except you, on French screens from January 24. Here is its trailer:
