First trailer for Twisters sees the sequel take disaster movies to a new extreme level

Hold on to your seats, the first trailer for Twisters is here, and it looks like disaster is looming.

The film, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, is a sequel to the 1996 movie about a group of storm chasers. This new reimagining stars Top Gun: Maverick’s Glen Powell, Normal People’s Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts‘ Anthony Ramos. Sasha Lane, Kiernan Shipka, Katy O’Brian, and Superman himself David Corenswet all complete the cast of the new movie.

The new trailer gives us our first insight into the plot of the disaster movie too, which up until now has been super under wraps. The film sees a group of storm chasers encounter not one, but two tornados, seeming caused by climate change.

Back at the end of 2023, Powell told Vogue that the movie is “not a reboot”. He said: “We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one. It’s a completely original story. There are no characters from the original movie back, so it’s not really a continuation. It’s just its own standalone story in the modern-day.” The actor, who was promoting his rom-com Anyone But You added that, “humans versus weather is a very universal idea – how powerless we really are in the face of these cataclysmic forces.”

Twisters is set to hit theaters on July 19, 2024. The sequel wasn’t the only new trailer released during the Super Bowl either, with the first looks at Wicked and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes also debuting.

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