"To work alongside industry titans Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall has been one of the great honours," says Twisters director Lee Issac Chung

“To work alongside industry titans Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall has been one of the great honours,” says Twisters director Lee Issac Chung

It will be released in Cinemas in India on Thursday, July 18 in English & Hindi and also in IMAX.

This summer, the epic studio disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, seat-gripping, big-screen thrill ride called Twisters - that puts you in direct contact with one of nature’s most wondrous—and destructive—forces. From the producers of the Jurassic, Bourne and Indiana Jones series comes Twisters, a current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar-nominated writer-director of Minari, Twisters stars Golden Globe nominee Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell as opposing forces who come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.

“To work alongside industry titans Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall has been one of the great honours,” says Twisters director Lee Issac Chung

Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Cooper, 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 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 and their competing teams find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.

Talking about leading the charge for this huge undertaking like Twisters, director Lee Issac Chung says, "Directing Twisters signifies a major transition for me. I’ve been making low-budget, independent films for most of my life. I grew up in NW Arkansas on the Oklahoma border—tornados were a big reality for me. Growing up as a child I was mesmerized when the original film came out in 1996. Here was a group of people running into the storm while everyone else was running out. So, when the producers came to me to direct this new chapter, I was truly honoured and terrified to make the transition into tentpole, summer blockbuster territory. But the film embodies what inspired me to take on the challenge; I wanted to run toward my fears and not away from them.

He added, "Many components were important to me in making this film. I have long wanted to tell a story like this with a strong, female lead, and Daisy Edgar-Jones delivers on every level. We collaborated very closely with a dedicated team of climate scientists and together, I hope we’ve crafted an immersive experience that brings viewers up close and personal to the things that are bigger than us, things that are meant to scare us and take us into the heart of the storm."

He further said, "To work alongside industry titans Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall has been one of the great honours of my career. Their belief in my vision for the film has been nothing short of empowering. This film aims to offer an exhilarating experience that transcends the confines of the screen, and my hope is to ignite in audiences the same sense of wonder and awe that I felt as a kid witnessing the power of nature firsthand."

Twisters also stars Golden Globe nominee Anthony Ramos as Javi, Nope’s Brandon Perea, Golden Globe winner Maura Tierney and Sasha Lane, along with David Corenswet, Daryl McCormack, Kiernan Shipka and Nik Dodani.

Chung directs from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, from a story by Joseph Kosinski, based on characters created by Michael Crichton & Anne-Marie Martin. Twisters is produced by Oscar nominee Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Thomas Hayslip and Ashley Jay Sandberg.

Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment Present a Lee Isaac Chung Film, Twisters, which is distributed internationally by Warner Bros. Pictures. It will be released in Cinemas in India on Thursday, July 18 in English & Hindi and also in IMAX.