Officially tabbed as an “update” to the 1996 film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters is one of the year’s most highly anticipated releases. Universal has just given fans their first glimpse of the project, and we’re starting to understand why everyone is rediscovering their love for tornadoes.
Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser who suffers from a traumatic encounter she experienced with a tornado during college. Tracking storm patterns from the safety of her New York City apartment, she finds herself pulled back into the field to test a new, potentially groundbreaking tracking system. There, she meets Glen Powell’s Tyler Owens, a highly charismatic social-media star who brings his millions of followers along for every chase: the more dangerous the visuals, the better.
Full of high-flying CGI, the debut trailer didn’t show a single flying cow or drive-in movie theater, two landmark visuals from the original film. And though it’s supposedly not in the same universe as the Dan de Bont-directed classic, one can still hope that Hunt shows up at some point, even if only for a Shania Twain-level soundtrack-style cameo.
Co-starring Anthony Ramos, Maura Tierney, Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kernan Shipka, and Nik Dodani, Twisters tears into theaters on July 19.
