Twisters (2024)/Trivia

== Trivia ==
* Bill Paxton had tried to get a sequel to Twister off the ground for years. After seeing success as the director of films like Frailty (2001), Paxton wanted to direct a modernized telling of the 1925 Tri-State tornado that took the lives of 751 people, and would focus on one single tornado that travels through several states. Paxton, with the help of producer James Cameron, also wanted the film to have an MPAA R-rating and maintain a realistic depiction of the damages that real tornadoes cause, and planned for it to be shot in 3D. The film at one point had an unofficial schedule date for the summer of 2012 under the name "Twister 3D", but it was ultimately canceled due to budgetary concerns and, years later, by Paxton's death in 2017. 
* Production was originally to take place in and around Los Angeles, California before it was decided by director [Lee Isaac Chung], who had grown up in the midwestern United States, that the film should be shot on location in Oklahoma. The first Twister from 1996 also went through a similar process, where Jan De Bont demanded that the film also be shot in Oklahoma and threatened to leave production if it wasn't. 
* Interior sets were shot at Prairie Surf Studios in downtown Oklahoma City, which was also housing Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and Tulsa King (2022) at the same time. 
* Helen Hunt, who starred in the 1996 film, pitched her version of a Twister sequel to Universal in July 2020, with a story involving the science team at an Oklahoma historically black college who use their inventions to stop tornadoes. Hunt, who wanted to direct it herself and star alongside Daveed Diggs, said her idea briefly entered a developmental stage but was dismissed and canceled by the end of 2020. 
* In the second trailer, at the Rodeo, Kate Cooper is wearing the same outfit as Helen Hunt's Jo Harding in Twister (1996) 
* The trailer shows that the tornado reading devices of the Dorothy line continue with at least Dorothy V. If there are more or not, is unknown. 
* This is an in-name-only sequel to Twister (1996). According to reports, the story will be entirely new and updated to today's methods and techniques of tornado hunting, with no returning characters. 
* This marks the second time Glen Powell starred in a sequel released decades after its predecessor, after Top Gun: Maverick (2022). 
* No character from the original Twister (1996) returns in this movie. 
* Joseph Kosinski was originally attached to direct the film when it was set for a 2022 release date, but left after the project became delayed. Dan Trachtenberg, Travis Knight, and the duo of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi were also in talks to direct. 
* A RAM 3500 Tyler Owens drives (played by Glen Powell) with the color red is a nod to the late Bill Paxton's vehicle he drove in Twister (1996) which is a 1995 Dodge Ram 2500. The 1995 truck sold before the original was 410,000 and after sales it increased to nearly 480,000 trucks sold. 
* The song in the second trailer "Ain't No Love in Oklahoma" is by country singer Luke Combs. The song's made only for the film. An album for Twisters releases July 19th. It includes Miranda Lambert, Kane Brown, Jelly Roll etc. There was also a Soundtrack album for the original Twister (1996) movie that had mainly Van Halen as it had the song Humans Being that was made for the film. The only artist to be shown on both Twister and Twisters soundtrack is Shania Twain. 
* During the second trailer, a water tower of El Reno is shown as a tribute to the El Reno Tornado on May 31, 2013. Three members of the TWISTEX team, Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young, died in the El Reno tornado. It's one of the filming locations for the sequel. 
* In the second trailer for Twisters, behind Javi (played by Anthony Ramos) on a STORM PAR vehicle says Tin Man, a reference to that character from The Wizard Of Oz (1939). The original Twister (1996) film also referenced the character Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz as the weather instrument pack the late Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt characters created as a warning for Tornadoes. 
* As Dorothy V is unveiled, the majority of the labels are still the same as from the original Twister (1996) movie despite all four Dorothy's were destroyed. 
* In the International Trailer 2, the opening shot of Kate (played by Daisy Edgar-Jones) seeing the damage of the aftermath is similar to Twister (1996) when Jo's house was destroyed by an F5 when she was a child in the beginning of the original film. They both lose someone where Jo lost her Dad where Kate loses someone close to her. 
* In the International Trailer 2, when Tyler explains by how much a Tornado destroys or eats to Kate, it's referring to the Fujita Scale where it scales from an EF-0 to an EF-5. In the original Twister (1996) at Aunt Meg's house Melissa (played by Jami Gertz) asks if there's an F5 Tornado and Bill explains what the Fujita scale to her. 
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