All The Ways ‘twisters’ Pays Homage To The Original

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If you’re heading to your local theater to see “Twisters” and wondering “Do I need to see the original ‘Twister’ first?” Well, no. But revisiting the movie certainly would enhance the experience.

The Lee Issac Chung-directed disaster movie is a standalone story from Jan de Bont’s 1996 classic about an eccentric band of storm chasers led by Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton. And a couple days before starting production in Oklahoma, “Twisters” star Daisy Edgar-Jones had the idea to get the cast and crew together to revisit the original movie.

“We rented out the theater,” Chung tells Variety. “It was a very loud theatrical experience where we were all laughing, people were shouting [their favorite lines], and afterwards, you heard people saying, ‘Jami Gertz got robbed. Poor Melissa!’”…

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