‘Twister’ Reboot in the Works at Universal

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Not sure how we missed this story in June when it was published (but I can't seem to find it posted on Stormtrack). Variety is reporting that a Twister reboot is in the works:

"Universal Pictures is looking to reboot the classic tentpole "Twister" and looks to have found a director to weather the storm. Sources tell Variety that Universal Pictures is developing a reboot of the 1996 blockbuster and is in negotiations with “Top Gun: Maverick” helmer Joseph Kosinski to direct. Frank Marshall will produce the pic and the studio is currently meeting with writers to pen the script. Plot details are vague on this latest version"

variety.com

‘Twister’ Reboot in the Works at Universal With Joseph Kosinski Eyed to Direct (EXCLUSIVE)

Universal Pictures is looking to reboot the classic tentpole "Twister," and looks to have found a director to weather the storm.
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I remember it being discussed on the Discord server. If they make it, I will go see it. Somehow, I just see it being all wrong, like before, but I hope it will be enjoyable. Many of the 35-45 crowd in our ranks owe their early interest to this movie.

I wonder if they're actually going to get Radarscope and Baron for product placement, or if they'll go with something hideously generic?
 
I have heard Twister 2 chatter for years. Hopefully it'll finally happen this time.

How was Maverick? I missed and forgot about so many movies this year because of, you know, 2020.
 
I've spoken to a couple of people from the original Twister project in the last three months and was told it's going to be a completely new "reboot." It will ultimately depend on the writer(s). Helen was not happy following the movie (trust me on this) for various reasons, I won't repeat since I learned all this in private. I'd be surprised if she would want to return. Bill Paxton was a great guy and approachable. Sad loss.
 
Personally I'd like to see a film based on the April 27, 2011 outbreak.

It would begin with a scene similar to the opening flashback of Twister, as a family in a mobile home in Nowheresville, Alabama is rousted out of bed by the roar of thunder and their NOAA weather radio, and has to run for cover from one of the pre-dawn tornadoes.

"At 4:16 AM, while most Alabamians slept soundly and unaware, the first tornado reach into the dark of rural Alabama and filled the air with a lonely roar and the snapping of tall pines."

- "What Stands in a Storm," p. 21.
 
Well the 3 rounds that day would fit the Twister plot line. We had pre-dawn, midday, and then the main event.

I read somewhere public Bill Paxton just loved making the movie and really got into severe wx. His passing is still sad. Hunt never was interested in the weather stuff; so, she felt like it was a drag. That's all I read, nothing shocking, just not interested in the material. I sure hope it was not something more serious.

Back to real life, Family Life Radio has an midday DJ Shannyn Caldwell, who lost both her parents in a Dixie tornado when she was young. No she didn't become a tornado researcher. However she is an understanding voice when severe wx threatens. Though FLR is national, the jocks somehow keep it personal.
 
Hunt's deal-breaker, i believe, was working with Du Bont again. She got sunburned eyeballs, or some such.
 
When I met with the Warner Bros. writers for the first movie, they were looking at several themes including going back to the 1974 Super Outbreak. Some of the other ideas were more science-fiction based. I'm hoping the new script incorporates some of the fakery that has been going on, as it would create an interesting update to the Jonas arch-nemesis figure from the first film.
 
B. Dean Berry said:
Thats the part that bothers me. The older I get, the more it becomes clear that Jonas was the good guy.
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That's actually a very fascinating and interesting comment. My theory is that social media, for example, allows a very wide spectrum of acceptance, is very forgiving and easy to manipulate. The very few people who are aware enough to contradict actions are silenced. In other words, I could likely start saying (and promoting myself) by suggesting my images "were saving lives" because they made people think about the power of severe weather. This may be true in a very isolated cases, but not in a main stream way -- such as actual tornado warnings, for example. The same may be true for grey science, where the overall benefit as suggested by the clever perpetrators is accepted as truth even though the benefits are likely non-existent or minimal at best.
 
I think it goes even further. Jonas was made to look "evil" because he "stole" the tech they worked on, and had corporate sponsors. What he did, in practice, was take the tech and put it to use, by securing backers to actually fund the deployment. He was getting it done in live time, while the protagonists had (assumingly) been piddling around on university grants with junk cars, putting forth a low fund attempt at the same thing. Jonas wanted to get it done, period, and why not make cash while doing it? Jonas Miller was the hero of the movie.
 
Omni, or maybe it was Analog, had a short story called Funnel Hawk, that followed a female pilot, doing Sterling Colgate type flights.

I wrote a Lovecraft pastiche called “Chase Season”. Too long to share here, but the idea was that Tri-State was the father of the Dunwich Horror—that the ridge it rode near was a ley line. 2011’s tornadoes had the best horizontal vortices yet seen.

The idea of a tornado as a Lovecraftian entity deserves the big screen treatment.

In no other disaster do parents shush their children, fearing a Hellmouth kaiju will hear them...and turn.

Ball lightning, shrill piping, old tv ‘sferic glows. This thing could rip up overpasses and eat safe-rooms. The sound of chanting from the skies as demonology and storm chasing meet...THAT is the movie I want.
 
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