Bill Paxton Wants a 3-D 'Twister' Sequel

Bill Paxton would like to make a sequel to Twister, which...whatever. I think at this point, the storm chaser shows on Science or Discovery could beat any fake drama Hollywood could muster, but Paxton is nonetheless strongly considering a return to the scene of the crime. He tells Premium Hollywood he wants to do a 3-D film, a sequel that could "explore it in a more enthralling way, getting into more of the history and the lore, more of a darker version of the first one." I tend to think, minus the 3-D thing, 2012 has kind of laid bare all the global destruction we need to see for a while, but Paxton is taking this rather seriously.

"I flew into St. Louis with my buddy Scott Thomson, who played Preacher in Twister, and we rented a car and drove down to southeastern Missouri, into the Ozarks...We started tracking the trail of the most famous tornado that ever hit the country, which was the Tri-State Tornado of 1925. It still holds all of the records. It was called the Tri-State because it was a mile wide when it came down from the sky on the afternoon of March 16, 1925, and it was a rural area, but, boy, before it was through, it crossed the Mississippi, it cut across southern Illinois, where it hit a lot of towns. And then it went across the Wabash, into Indiana, staying on the ground three and a half hours and cutting a damage path 219 miles long, killing about 700 people. There's actually footage that I found in Murphysboro at their historical society. They had footage from a biplane that the government sent down, just to do aerial footage of all of the destruction and the damage. So we just did that to kind of get some ideas, and from that I kind of extrapolated an idea for a sequel."

But how do you make that into a movie? At a certain point, any protagonist you select is going to get the hell out of Dodge and let the storm jump the Mississippi River. Good riddance. The only way to do it, really, is to do Twister all over again, where the characters we follow ride the storm out, which nobody was doing in the 20s, although it would be bad-ass to see a 3-D effects movie set 80 years ago. If Paxton does go that route - and he says he's put together a proposal to see how feasible the movie would be for a studio - then they'd have to do a Nigel Tufnel and go one louder. The 3-D accomplishes that, but I don't think we have to have a new Twister just for that purpose.

Comments

[Honz Brix]

Oh hell yeah!! I want to see it. I'm obsessed with tornados and thunder storms in general and Twister is my favorite movie of all time because of that reason and a few others. I say go for it. I will be there every day opening weekend

[Cheryl]

Any idea as to what the status is on the IMAX tornado film the guy from Storm Chasers was filming in the series? Because I would go see that. A "Twister" remake with more realistic cows flying through the air? Meh.

All I ask is if Bill Paxton does get this thing pushed through, that Jami Gertz isn't brought back with the worst accent ever.

[Tjei]

Eventually if this one comes, the sequels for this should all be 80 years apart. That would be cool.

[Ramsay]

Twister is seriously one of my least favorite movies of all time, and no...that is not an exageration. The science was laughable, if not insulting. Pepsi Can wings? Seriously?

Yeah, so the CGI was pretty good for 1996, but that is all this movie had to offer, and that is all a sequel will have to offer. It will be a huge waste of tens of millions of dollars. It blows my mind that people like this movie...

Please, don't do this Bill Paxton!

[Lori]

I thought that the movie was awesome! I would LOVE to see another TWISTER with Bill. :)

[PHYSC]

DO IT BUT NOT A SEQUEL A STORY ABOUT SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THE TRI STATE TORNADO, ABOUT MULTIPLE TOUCHDOWN'S ACROSS A STATE AND THE CARNAGE OF THAT MAKE IT MORE ADULT AND LESS OF THE SILLINESS AND HUMOUR MAKE IT BOARDERLINE REALITY THIS TIME JUST CALL IT TWISTERS SORT OF REMANIS GOD KNOWS HOW TO SPELL THAT WORD ANY WAY MAKE IT WITH GUIDANCE OF TORNADO CHASERS AND WEATHER EXPERTS GET THERE IDEAS ONBOARD WITH THE GUYS IN SPECIAL EFFECTS TO MUSTER UP THE BEST LOOKING CGI TORNADO'S POSSIBLE . BUT REALY NO I'M FLOATING INSIDE AN F5 ATTACHED TO A PIPE REALISTICALY IT WOULD TWIST YOUR LIMBS OFF I THINK IF THE DEBRIS DOES'NT PENETRATE YOUR BODY FIRST. ALSO GET SOME HIGH QUALITY ACTORS TO PLAY IN IT TO NOT THAT THERE WERE'NT BEFORE YOU NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO CAN REALY MAKE YOU BELIEVE IT WERE REAL.

[chillk]

I chase tornadoes. I drove by a violent tornado while it hit Mapleton, Iowa a few weeks back on April 9th, 2011. We were looking for the spawn of that massive tornado, because we knew from the storm scale, it would get bigger and more violent. When it first hit, it destroyed 60 percent of Mapleton, and then continued in various forms as an EF3 for roughly the next 80 miles, and spawned more than 32 violent tornadoes. We chased the outbreak last week that in three days broke the history record for number of tornadoes in April, and we're just getting started in 2011.

I used to criticize the movie Twister because of the fake tornadoes, and the number encountered on a chase, that was until last year when I was under the Bowdle, South Dakota EF4 producing meso-cyclone that spawned a monster wedge with tornadoes wrapped around it like spokes on a wheel, moving around us in all directions.

I no longer criticize Twister, it is actually true to life drama. I have now seen rebar go straight through a cotton wood tree, and had arcs from power poles splitting in all directions around me with roof top debris flying across the windshield. The drama of the movie twister is very real.

If the new 3D Twister comes out using real storm footage, real chasers, real history, and real scientists as extras and cameos weaved into the drama of human events, it would blow away a bogus 2012 apocalypse (ἀποκάλυψις) Hollywood block buster.

I have learned that true cyclic tornado super cells have a dark machine at work, light becomes void of color and all becomes black and white, and big violent tornadoes have a birth, a life-cycle, and a vaporous death with very real life and death consequences in between, as they wreck massive destruction on those in their paths.

Bill Paxton, I hope you get your next 3D shot, with Sean Casey, Josh Wurman, Reed Timmer and the rest of us surly science types who know the true nature of these massive violent storms. I'll help.

Chris

[chillk]

Read the following story of a young woman who narrowly survived the violent Tuscaloosa EF4 tornado last week, there is a story and need to remake the movie twister, but now it can be based on the super outbreak in Alabama that occurrred last week on April 27, 2011.

This is more than compelling.

http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/05/tuscaloosa_tornado_experience.html#cmpid=v2mode_be_smoref_face

Bill I can be reached through Sean Casey.

Chris