Are you a director helming an action-packed legacy sequel that will attempt to recreate an exciting cinematic experience? Cast Glen Powell. After helping Tom Cruise rediscover the need for speed the big box office hit Top Gun: Maverick, Powell will take audiences on an all-new and exhilarating storm chase. And if the latest trailer of Twisters is no indication of what this will be like, Powell will be a big part of another long-awaited sequel that proves to be worthy of its predecessor.
My highly professional take on this trailer is simple: YEEEEEAAAAHHH! Here we go. In the theater, that is. I'll let the fictional people Twisters step into the middle of a “once-in-a-generation tornado outbreak.” I'm old enough to know that a safe movie theater is the only way to experience it. (This means no cars in the middle of the storm's path.)
Unlike last time, this movie won't pit high-paid fancy scientists against a rough and tumble crew. Instead, it will see their respective leaders come together in a wild and deadly race against Mother Nature. And yet, with TwistersThe main character haunted by his tornado past, this is a sequel that plays with and against the original film. This should help ensure that it still feels like one Twister movie while also standing alone, the best kind of sequel.
Even TwistersThe official synopsis has us ready to return to the heart of a destructive tornado. From Universal Pictures:
Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. His friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) lures him back to the open plains to test an innovative new tracking system. There, he crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his wacky crew, the more dangerous the better. As storm season intensifies, never-before-seen terrifying phenomena are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler, and their competing teams find themselves directly in the paths of multiple storm systems converging on central Oklahoma in the fight to their lives.
Twisters comes from director Lee Isaac Chung (Minary). Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) wrote the screenplay. (Which means we can thank him for the fire tornado.) The film also stars Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka, Nik Dodani, and Maura Tierney.
It hits theaters this summer on July 19. And if it's as good as this one Twisters it seems from the trailer, another action legacy sequel starring Glen Powell will no doubt follow it in theaters.
