Hide your cows, folks – Universal is reportedly looking to reboot Twister, the iconic 1996 disaster film starring Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt.
According to Variety, which broke the news, Top Gun: Maverick helmer Joseph Kosinski is in talks to direct, with the search for a writer currently underway.
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The original Twister – written by Jurassic Park mastermind Michael Crichton and his wife Anne-Marie Martin, and directed by Speed helmer Jan de Bont – centered around Paxton and Hunt’s married storm-chasers, whose relationship was every bit as tumultuous as the tornadoes they tracked (it’s a metaphor, see?).
No word on whether the plot of the Twister reboot would tread similar ground or explore a whole new story, but chances are it’ll be extreme.
The original Twister sucked up $494 million worldwide on a budget of $92 million, and the film inspired a special effects attraction at the Universal Studios Florida theme park from 1998 through 2015 that featured appearances from Paxton and Hunt. (It was later replaced with a vastly inferior Jimmy Fallon ride, but that’s neither here nor there.)
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Source: IGN.com Twister Is the Latest Universal Classic to Get the Reboot Treatment