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For decades, I’ve heard moviegoers dismiss blockbusters as nothing more than excuses for elaborate visual effects. Most of the time, that’s hyperbole. In the case of Twister, it is 100 percent true. As detailed in this 2020 feature in The Ringer, Twister did not begin its life as a story about daredevil storm chasers. Director Jan de Bont didn’t grow up as a boy in Netherlands dreaming of the day when he could capture the majesty and terror of tornados onscreen. The whole film started when Steven Spielberg wondered in the mid-1990s if computer effects had progressed to the point that they coul...
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Helen Hunt verriet, dass sie hocherfreut darüber sei, dass 'Twister' die Zeit überdauert hat.Die 61-jährige Schauspielerin spielte die von Tornados besessene Jo Harding in dem Katastrophenfilm aus dem Jahr 1996 und freut sich über die neue Aufmerksamkeit, die das kommende 'Twister'-Sequel erfährt. Hunt sei jedoch traurig darüber, dass ihre verstorbenen Co-Stars Bill Paxton und Philip Seymour Hoffman nicht mehr da sind, um sich den Film anzusehen. Helen erzählte in einem Interview gegenüber 'Entertainment Weekly': „Es macht Spaß (zu sehen, wie 'Twister' seinen großen Moment hat). Ich wünschte …...
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Helen Hunt is delighted that 'Twister' has stood the test of time. The 61-year-old star played tornado-obsessed Jo Harding in the 1996 disaster film and is happy with the renewed attention resulting from the upcoming sequel 'Twisters' although is saddened that late co-stars Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman are not around to see it. Helen told Entertainment Weekly: "It's fun (to see 'Twister having a moment). I wish... There's two key actors who aren't with us anymore who did it with me, so I wish they were here, and there was some kind of all-get-together version of it. "Some people will...
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Philip Seymour Hoffman and Bill Paxton are being hailed as “shapeshifters” by director Jan de Bont. The pair were cast by 80-year-old filmmaker Jan in his 1996 blockbuster ‘Twister’, and he has now paid tribute to their talents after Bill was killed by a stroke following heart surgery aged 61 in 2017 – three years after troubled Philip died aged 46 from a drugs overdose. Ahead of the premiere of the long-awaited sequel to ‘Twister’ – titled ‘Twisters’ – Jan told The Hollywood Reporter: “Those two were basically the shapeshifters of that group, and they helped make a group of really amazing peo...
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Dustin Hoffman and Helen Hunt have been cast in Peter Greenaway's new film. The pair are set to star in the British filmmaker's latest project which has started principal photography in Lucca, Italy. The story is based on Greenaway's original script and centres on an intelligent man called Jacob whose last big adventure is planned to be his own death. He wants to pass away in elegant, sensible and tidy fashion and leave behind as few loose ends as possible. Sofia Boutella, Giacomo Gianniotti, Jonno Davies and Laura Morante also have roles in the untitled picture – which marks Greenaway's first...
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'Twister' director Jan de Bont is adamant the disaster movie "cannot be remade". De Bont helmed the 1996 original starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt about a storm chasers caught up in a tornado which wreaks havoc across Oklahoma and the film is being revived for a sequel called 'Twisters' which is reportedly set after the events of the original but the moviemaker is adamant the use of CGI will make it a very different film. He told Inverse.com: "When things fell from the sky, there were real things falling from a helicopter. If you film a car escaping a tornado in a hail storm, it was real ic...
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A remake of 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun' is in the works. Village Roadshow are to produce a modern-day take on the cult 1985 romantic comedy dance film that starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Lee Montgomery and Helen Hunt. Marja Lewis-Ryan is co-writing the script for the movie together with Allie Romano while Elizabeth Banks is producing with Max Handelman for the duo's Brownstone Productions company. The original flick centred on army brat Janey Glenn (Parker) who attends a strict Catholic high school in Chicago and has to contend with an even stricter father at home. Janey decides to follow her...
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'Top Gun: Maverick' actor Glen Powell is in talks to join the 'Twister' sequel. The 34-year-old actor is to star alongside 'Normal People' star Daisy Edgar-Jones in the follow-up to the 1996 disaster epic, which is titled 'Twisters', Deadline reports. While their roles are not known at this time, however, it was previously revealed by The Hollywood Reporter that: "Edgar-Jones will star in the project as a former storm chaser who, after surviving a disastrous tornado encounter, now works a desk job. However, she will soon be forced to, you guessed it, go out into the breach once more." Not thou...
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Daisy Edgar-Jones is set to star in 'Twisters'. The 'Normal People' actress has been cast in the reboot of the hit 1996 film 'Twister' which is being directed by Lee Isaac Chung. The movie is being co-financed by Warner Bros and the script is being written by Mark L. Smith. It is slated for release in 2024. 'Twister' was a big success when it was released and the film starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in the lead roles. The original flick was helmed by 'Speed' director Jan De Bont and executive produced by Steven Spielberg. Daisy, 24, previously starred as Kya Clark from North Carolina in the...
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Alan Ruck is to star in 'Crust'. The 66-year-old actor is set to feature opposite Sean Whalen in the horror comedy film that is being directed by the latter in his feature debut. The duo previously collaborated on the hit 1996 disaster epic 'Twister' alongside Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. 'Crust' tells the story of lonely laundromat owner Vegas Winters (Whalen), who keeps the leftover socks from customers and uses them to clean himself. After being abused he weeps into the pile of socks, which turns into a creature who seeks revenge on Vegas' enemies. Ruck will play the role of Randy Roberts, a...
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