“We’ve got twins!”

Those phrases, delivered with a mix of terror and pleasure, inform viewers all they should know in regards to the chaos and carnage {that a} group of storm chasers is about to come across in “Twisters,” a follow-up to the 1996 field workplace hit “Twister.” The catastrophe movie aired its first trailer in the course of the Super Bowl. Starring Glen Powell, who performs a self-described “tornado wrangler,” and Daisy Edgar-Jones as a scientist, the movie is ready for a July 19 launch.

Billed as a “new chapter” of the unique, the movie is directed by Oscar nominee Lee Isaac Chung, identified for his movie “Minari,” which shared an agricultural setting and little else with “Twisters.” Along with Powell and Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Daryl McCormack and Maura Tierney spherical out the forged.

Powell is channeling a charismatic daredevil in the primary look, declaring, “You don’t face your fears. You ride ’em.” And there’s quite a bit to be fearful about on this turbulent journey — farms are destroyed, automobiles are sliced aside, cities are leveled, individuals are tossed by means of the air and livestock is propelled into orbit. Nothing is protected because the tornadoes reduce a vicious path by means of Middle America.

Though plot particulars had beforehand been saved beneath wraps, Powell informed Vogue the brand new movie is “definitely not a reboot.”

“We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one,” Powell mentioned. “It’s a completely original story. There are no characters from the original movie back, so it’s not really a continuation. It’s just its own standalone story in the modern day.”

He continued, “I don’t think anyone has brought up this movie in forever, but talking to people, they’re like, ‘That was one of my favorite movies growing up. That movie terrified me.’”

The 1996 authentic “Twister” starred Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Carey Elwes and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and made practically $500 million on the field workplace. It landed Oscar nods in the visible results and sound classes. Jan De Bont directed the movie from a screenplay by Michael Crichton, with Steven Spielberg govt producing.

Hunt revealed in 2021 that she developed an concept for a “Twister” sequel — which fell by means of.

“I tried to get it made,” Hunt mentioned. “With Daveed [Diggs] and Rafael [Casal] and me writing it, and all Black and brown storm chasers, and they wouldn’t do it. I was going to direct it… We could barely get a meeting, and this is in June of 2020 when it was all about diversity. It would have been so cool.”

“Twisters” wasn’t the one Hollywood film to make use of the Super Bowl as a launching pad. Viewers additionally received a take a look at “Wicked,” the large display screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, and “Deadpool 3,” which finds Ryan Reynolds’ costumed hero teaming up with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine.

Watch the total trailer for “Twisters” under.