Jan de Bont directed Twister , just over a year after directing Speed . Two blockbusters that are surely, in the most commercial section, two of the most entertaining products of the cinema of the 90s. The film, beyond belonging to the genre of catastrophes, was a dramatic adventure, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton . This duo forms in fiction a married couple about to sign the divorce papers, but as if it were a metaphor about life and marriage, the action against storms and chaos fan the flame of both. The objective that both meteorologists seek on the tape is to place a device full of sensors that, sucked in by the tornado in question, could warn populations 15 minutes in advance to move away from the area, thus saving hundreds of lives.
This human conflict against the devastating power of nature was a success with the public , in such a way that in an interview to promote her latest series, Blindspotting Helen Hunt has spoken of the possible sequel that never saw the light. The studios didn’t even meet with her to hear her idea, which was trying to create a racially diverse series of storm chasers. Try to do it with Daveed and Rafael and me writing it, all the storm chasers were black and Latino and they didn’t want to do it. I was going to direct it, ”Hunt said, praising the two producers who work with her on Blindspotting.
Despite the fact that these conversations took place in 2020, a point at which the media culture asked more than ever for diversity in projects: “We could barely get a meeting, and this is June 2020 when it comes to diversity. It would have been great . ” Then the actress spoke of whether she would reprise her role, joking that she would be a Dr. Harding “old, tired and haggard”, stating that she would surely “die in a tornado in the opening scene.”
Fans of what is considered a cult film within the genre have always wanted to see a second part. Today, thanks to the advances, the pioneering special effects of the time could be greatly improved and perhaps a genre updated, in which normally what the characters do is flee from catastrophes and not enter them.
