The film with the greatest bovine sight gag in the history of cinema is getting a redo. Variety is reporting that Universal is planning to reboot Twister. The studio is already lining up a director as well, being in negotiations with Top Gun: Maverick and Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.
There are absolutely no details about the plot available or any information on if a screenplay has even been finalized, but if it follows the gist of the 1994 blockbuster, then the movie should be about a team of ragtag twister chasers, two of whom use to be coupled, who go around trying to track the biggest twisters possible. It doesn’t sound like the plot of a $494 million blockbuster, but there’s a reason Twister still has a following to this day. And it’s because the movie just works for some reason.
Kosinski is an experienced big-movie director whose skills at kicking out high-budget fare shouldn’t be ignored, even if he doesn’t bring anything that interesting to the table. He has a close relationship with Tom Cruise after directing the actor in both Oblivion and Top Gun: Maverick, so maybe we’ll see the actor get sucked into a funnel of wind sometime in the future once he’s returned from space.
Variety calls the new film a reboot, though just how you reboot a single film franchise(?) is entirely unclear. “Remake” seems like a more appropriate word here, unless Universal is taking a stab at a series of films based on crazy people driving cars right into dangerous weather occurrences. If that is so, the “Storm Universe” will hopefully fare better than the Dark Universe did.
Published: Jun 25, 2020 03:20 pm