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Helen Hunt wanted to direct Twister 2 and was writing the script with Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal… but the studio wasn’t interested

A follow-up to the 1996 disaster film Twister (watch it HERE) has been in and out of development for over twenty-five years. A few months ago, it was announced that one is finally going to go into production, with Minari director Lee Isaac Chung at the helm and Daisy Edgar-Jones of Fresh and Where the Crawdads Sing in the lead. And while that film, titled Twisters, heads toward its July 19, 2024 release date, Insider got some information on the demise of the Twister 2 that Twister star Helen Hunt was recently developing with Grammy and Tony winner Daveed Diggs and his Blindspotting co-writer Rafael Casal.

Diggs told Insider, “I’m not going to get into it, mostly because I’m probably going to misremember things. But I’ll just say that there was a chance where we were discussing that, and that it didn’t happen. The reasons for that are potentially shady. But shady in the way that we know the industry is shady.“

This seems to go along with comments Hunt has made previously. Hunt revealed that he tried to make the film in 2021 during an appearance on Watch what Happens Live. Daveed, Rafael, me and all the Black and Brown storm chasers wrote it, but they refused to do it. I was going direct it… We couldn’t even get a meeting in June 2020, when diversity was the theme. It would have been awesome. We wanted to have it at a (Historically Black College and University), and there was a rocket club. It was going to be so cool.“Directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, the first

Twister told the following story: It was going to be so cool.“Directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin, the first

Twister told the following story: Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.The screenplay Mark L. Smith has written for Twisters

centers on a former storm chaser who works a desk job after surviving a disastrous tornado encounter. However, she will be forced back out onto the field.Which sounds more interesting to you? The Twisters