Twister Director Didn't Get the Tornado Warning About Twisters

There’s ne'er been a amended clip to beryllium a Twister fan. The 1996 catastrophe classical hits 4K Ultra HD July 9, meaning those growling tornados volition look and dependable amended than ever—and its long-awaited follow-up, Twisters, touches down July 19. Surprisingly, portion helium knew astir his ain movie’s sparkling caller version, the archetypal Twister director says helium didn’t cognize Twisters even existed until helium saw the trailer.

It sounds intolerable to beryllium truthful unaware of a large Hollywood summertime blockbuster, overmuch little 1 that’s tagging onto one’s ain Hollywood summertime blockbuster (albeit 28 years later), but that’s what Jan de Bont told the Hollywood Reporter. “I didn’t cognize that determination was [another] movie until I really saw the archetypal trailer, which was not that agelong ago,” de Bont said. (The archetypal trailer dropped in February, tied into the Super Bowl.)

The director, who besides directed Speed and Speed 2: Cruise Control, shared immoderate opinions astir sequels too. “If you privation to marque a sequel, it should truly beryllium a sequel,” helium said. “It should beryllium astir the aforesaid people. It should beryllium the aforesaid continuing communicative and saga of the aforesaid radical of people, preferably successful antithetic circumstances that are adjacent much absorbing and much exciting. But to marque a full antithetic communicative [like Twisters], past you shouldn’t truly telephone it a sequel successful my opinion.”

Head to THR to work the afloat interview, which besides includes immoderate bully remembrances of precocious Twister stars Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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