I know what you’re thinking, “Dan, really?! Haven’t we gotten a little out of control with our sequels?! Twister?! What next, the crew chasing MORE tornadoes?” And I would agree with you on principle…..BUT COME ON, it’s Twister!! If you know me then you know I have an unhealthy obsession with tornadoes and at one point in my life even wanted to be a storm chaser. Twister is one of my favorite guilty pleasure movies to pop in on a lazy Saturday and relax to. There’s nothing better than seeing CG tornadoes rip apart a wooden house or cows flying around.

Premium Hollywood did an extensive interview with the great Bill Paxton and he talked in length about his hopes for a sequel to the 1996 hit. He has already had a meeting with DreamWorks executive Kathleen Kennedy and in the interview he details where his inspiration for a second film came from:

I flew into St. Louis with my buddy Scott Thomson, who played Preacher in ‘Twister,’ and we rented a car and drove down to southeastern Missouri, into the Ozarks…and we started tracking the trail of the most famous tornado that ever hit the country, which was the Tri-State Tornado of 1925…So we just did that to kind of get some ideas, and from that I kind of extrapolated an idea for a sequel. And I kind of put that together into a format, and now we’re kind of waiting to see if that’s going to move forward. That would need Steven Spielberg’s blessing, ultimately, and they probably won’t take it to him ‘til there’s real studio interest, but I think the 3D applications of that could obviously be pretty amazing.

That’s right, he said 3D! Can you imagine what a Twister movie made in this decade in 3D would look like?! I am not sure what direction they would go, and it looks as if Paxton has already thought about that as he addressed the tone of the sequel:

The only reason I’d like to revisit that ground is because I realize we’re living in a time where big movies cost so much to make that the town is looking for built-in audiences…but…I always thought the first ‘Twister’ was an exciting ride, but I thought a sequel could explore it in a more enthralling way, getting into more of the history and the lore, more of a darker version of the first one.

So, what do you think about the possibility of a second Twister? I can’t say that I’ve ever been hoping for a sequel, but Bill Paxton is great in anything he does and if he’s behind the wheel, then I am on board!

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