How Twisters Connects To The Original Movie Explained By Director: “That’s What I Found Invigorating”
Summary
Twistershas bested the original movie on Rotten Tomatoes. The 1996 disaster movieTwister, which starred Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, was a smash hit, becoming the second highest-grossing movie of the year worldwide behind Roland Emmerich’s competing alien invasion disaster movieIndependence Day. TheupcomingTwistersis a standalone sequel to the original hit, centering a new trio of performers, namely Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos, though the cast also includes Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Sasha Lane, David Corenswet, Kiernan Shipka, and Paul Scheer.
Rotten Tomatoeshas now aggregated an official Tomatometer score forTwistersout of reviews from 25 different critics. While the score will fluctuate as more reviews are added throughout the week and beyond, at the time of writingthe score is a solidly Fresh 76%. This exceeds the score of the original movie by a decent margin, as the 1996 movie only has a score of 63%, aggregated from 71 different critics' reviews.
Will Twisters’ Audience Score Be A Similar Improvement?
Audiences Liked Twister Less Than Critics
TheTwistersmoviewill not gain an audience score until shortly after it has been officially released in theaters, so it remains to be seen if audiences will view it as an improvement on a similar level as critics. However, if it keeps its 13% lead on the original 1996 movie, it will also have a solidly Fresh audience score. While the original movie’s score is Rotten, it is just below the line to be considered Fresh with a 58% rating, meaning thatthe new movie could earn a solid 71% audience scoreif it succeeds by that same margin.
If anything, it seems likely that the new movie would earn an even more robust score than 71%. TheTwisterscastis led by a trio of actors with high-profile projects under their belts that have won over audiences far and wide. For instance, Glen Powell hasn’t had a movie with an audience score below 80% since his 2018 Netflix rom-comSet It Up, Daisy Edgar-Jones has never starred in a movie below 81%, andonly three of Anthony Ramos' 12 scored movies have fallen below 71%. Below, see a breakdown of Powell’s recent Rotten Tomatoes hot streak:
98%
91%
Anyone But You(2023)
87%
92%
82%
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society(2018)
81%
Set It Up(2018)
68%
Given that foundation,Twisterscould push the gap between itself and the original movie even further. Should that be the case and the audience score rises considerably past 80% or higher, the movie could very well become a hit at the level of the original. While becoming the No. 2 movie of 2024 could be a tall order, as the year is so far dominated by the massive hitsInside Out 2andDune: Part Two, it could potentially outgross the original movie’s robust $494.6 million gross, though it may fail to reach its whopping inflation-adjusted $992.3 million total.
Twisters
Cast
A follow-up to the 1996 original film Twister, Twisters is a sequel set years after the original, said to be fast-tracked by Steven Spielberg and Mark L. Smith, with Frank Marshal as producer. Little details exist about the film, but Helen Hunt is expected to reprise her role as Jo, with the film likely to pay homage to the late Bill Paxton.
