The sequel to ‘Twister’ receives the green light and seeks the return of Helen Hunt as the protagonist

It’s been 26 years since “Twister” hit theaters around the world. The film hit the box office and managed to raise $ 495.7 million. Directed by Jan de Bont, the film starred Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton. Now, Deadline has confirmed that Universal has finally given the green light to produce a sequel..

The screenplay for this new episode would have already been written by Mark L. Smith and, according to initial information, the relationship between Dr. Jo Harding and her daughter will follow. Apparently, the girl would inherit her parents’ passion for storm hunting and tornado hunting.. The American portal also states this Universal would be trying to bring Hunt back as the main storm chaser. In turn, we’ll have to wait to find out what the company has in mind to replace Paxton, who played Jo’s estranged husband.

The film does not yet have a director, although there is already talk of several candidates. These include Travis Knight (“Bumblebee”), Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”) and Dan Trachtenberg (“Predator: Prey”). However, the latter denied his possible participation in the film through his Twitter account.

To whom It May Concern. I am not doing a TWISTER.

? Dan Trachtenberg (@DannyTRS) October 17, 2022

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A couple of years ago since the project was approved, personally supported by Steven Spielberg himself, who helped accelerate the development of the film. However, It would have been directed by Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”), but the director left the film to direct Brad Pitt’s Formula 1 film for Apple TV +..

Now the project has finally resumed and it certainly won’t take long to find out more details about this new natural disaster film. Also, due to climate change, the whole matter related extreme weather is the order of the day, bringing the film much closer to today’s reality than it was in 1996.