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‘Twisters’ Cast Discuss Battling Storms While Filming the Thriller

Universal Pictures’ new Twisters video features the film’s stars talking about their love of the original Twister and having to stop shooting due to the actual weather mimicking the film’s storyline. The two-minute behind-the-scenes featurette also reveals background actors who are real storm chasers would leave the set to, well, go chase storms.

The cast includes Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing), Glen Powell (Hit Man), Anthony Ramos (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts), Brandon Perea (Nope), and Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy). Sasha Lane (American Honey), Harry Hadden-Paton (The Crown), David Corenswet (We Own This City), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), and Tunde Adebimpe (Leave the World Behind) also star.

Filling out the ensemble are Katy O’Brian (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania), Nik Dodani (Atypical), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Paul Scheer (Black Monday).

Minari‘s Oscar nominated director Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) is at the helm with Mark L. Smith writing the screenplay, based on characters created by Michael Crichton and Anne Marie Crichton. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley serve as producers, with Steven Spielberg, Thomas Hayslip, and Ashley Jay Sandberg executive producing.

Twisters is set to spin into theaters on July 19, 2024.

Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and director Lee Isaac Chung on the set of ‘Twisters’ (Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon / Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures & Amblin Entertainment)

The Plot, Courtesy of Universal Pictures:

Twisters stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos as equal forces, with opposing motivations, who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.

Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Carter, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Ramos) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.

As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler, Javi and their crews find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.



This post was last modified on July 21, 2025 12:34 pm

Rebecca Murray: Journalist covering the entertainment industry for 23+ years, including 13 years as the first writer for About.com's Hollywood Movies site. Member of the Critics Choice Association (Film & TV Branches), Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and Past President of the San Diego Film Critics Society.
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