Climate change is very much real and we’re constantly feeling its effects even if we’re not paying much attention to it right now due to, uh, more pressing real-world matters. Anyway, with this conversation being relevant once again and other genre fare not performing as well as it used to, it only makes sense that Hollywood is bringing big-budget disaster movies back, and Twisters looks like a decent return to form.
Marketing for this one has been swirling up for a while, but now Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. International are putting the pedal to the metal, as the movie drops on July 19, which is closer than most people realize. While we’re currently looking at Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Twisters and more popcorn flicks should be ruling the proper summer season.
Of course, a return to disaster movies isn’t a surefire hit, no matter how stunning the CG spectacle and real-life locations look, so Universal and Amblin were smart enough to juice the sequel-reboot (no one really knows for sure) up with a star-studded cast that includes Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People), Anthony Ramos (In the Heights), Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick), David Corenswet (James Gunn’s Superman), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Katy O’Brian (Love Lies Bleeding), among others.
