The winds were blowing on stage atCinemaCon- literally - as directorLee Isaac Chungwas joined by his main trio ofTwisterscast members:Glen Powell(Anyone but You),Anthony Ramos(In the Heights), andDaisy Edgar-Jones(Where the Crawdads Sing). The four co-workers were there to unveil a new teaser for the upcoming sequel toJan de Bont’s classic 1996 film,Twisterand kept things entertaining for the eager audience. During his opening comments, Chung said that helming a film like this one was “the scariest possible thing I could do in my life,” which was why he knew he needed to do it. He likened his concerns about taking on such a daunting task to those that the characters in the movie faced, saying that he, “wanted to run directly into my fear and not away from it.” The filmmaker also teased that audiences are in for a very “immersive” and “real” experience as the crew partnered withprofessionals in the industry - including storm chaserswho went out and collected footage for the project.
Passing over the mic - or mics - to the film’s three leading members, applause and cheers filled the theater when Powell, Edgar-Jones, and Ramos walked on stage to talk about their experiences ofmaking such a difficult film. The trio said they were thrown into the thick of it, with Ramos revealing that they filmed in “120-degree heat,” and Powell quipping that the creative team did everything in their power tomake it as real as possibleadding, “They pelted us with ice, they covered us with trash.” Hoping to engage the audience and give us a dose of what the cast and crew felt during filming, Edgar-Jones had several giant fans brought on stage and gave a demonstration that included fake leaves and a miniature plastic cow.
‘Twisters’ Latest Peek Upped The Action
Finally, they unveiled the teaser, which, although they revealed it was “unfinished,” was packed with an eerie kind of action from its very first moments. It began with a focus onEdgar-Jones’ Kate Cooperwho was in attendance at a rodeo in a small southern town when the entire arena began to chirp with weather alerts popping up on their cell phones. A mega-storm blows in and demolishes everything in its path - even carrying a truck away. Pushing the story into the future, we pick up after the storm with Ramos’ Javi approaching Kate to help him and his team on a tornado-hunting and research quest. Along their journey, they cross paths with Powell’s Tyler Owens — a big name instorm chasingand a celebrity all on his own. Despite their differences and varying beliefs in how suchcatastrophic natural occurrencesshould be investigated, the two teams come together in hopes of learning from their pasts to better educate their futures.
you’re able to learn in our handy guideand prepare to see it when it blows into theaters on July 19. While the Cinemacon teaser was an exclusive for the event, check out the firstTwisterstrailer below:
An update to the 1996 film ‘Twister’, which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system.
