'Twisters' stars Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and director Lee Isaac Chung give EW an exclusive breakdown of the first trailer for their highly anticipated standalone sequel.
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What was essential to me was that it always felt like in that first movie, which didn't necessarily feel like a disaster movie," [director Lee Isaac] Chung says of what he considered essential to make his new movie feel related to Twister. "To me, it felt like an adventure movie, and I always loved how that movie inspired a generation of meteorologists and people who were interested in science and weather just because it made that study feel like it was an adventure. That's something that I wanted to retain with this one.
That's really promising to hear, as many of us have been speculating on the tonal direction this sequel was going to take. Indeed, Twister did inspire a whole generation of chasers, not just road clogging yahoos, but meteorologists who advanced science and passionate life-long hobbyists who advanced the endeavor itself. My chase partner and I are unabashedly Twister inspired chasers.
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I hope the director pulls it off.
It's also nice to see the new film taking direct inspiration from real life. Notably, several of the featured tornadoes look like copies of actual events.
"We got twins!" looks exactly like Tony Laubach's shot of Akron, CO last from last year:
In fact it's so uncanny, I suspect it's a real shot that's been composited or duplicated in CG.
The poster tornado could be any number of events, but the shading, turbulence, and tilt of the funnel and debris cloud remind me of Carpenter, WY back in 2017.
This shot though, with the slow tilt looking up the funnel with compact clear air tornado cyclone, actually gave me goosebumps:
...and a clear demonstration that these won't be the 1D, tone-deaf manifestations of dread and disaster as they're usually portrayed, but also awe-inspiring objects of beauty and wonder. The first film had moments that captured that so well, so it's hopeful to see it again here.