All the Ways ‘Twisters’ Pays Homage to the Original ‘Twister’
variety.comAngelique Jackson SPOILER WARNING: This article discusses plot points from “Twisters,” now playing in theaters.
If you’re heading to your local theater to see “Twisters” and wondering “Do I need to see the original ‘Twister’ first?” Well, no.
But revisiting the movie certainly would enhance the experience. The Lee Issac Chung-directed disaster movie is a standalone story from Jan de Bont’s 1996 classic about an eccentric band of storm chasers led by Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton.
And a couple days before starting production in Oklahoma, “Twisters” star Daisy Edgar-Jones had the idea to get the cast and crew together to revisit the original movie. “We rented out the theater,” Chung tells Variety. “It was a very loud theatrical experience where we were all laughing, people were shouting [their favorite lines], and afterwards, you heard people saying, ‘Jami Gertz got robbed.
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