Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment will chase the storm again with TWISTERS, a new chapter from the 1996 record-shattering blockbuster, Twister, which became the second-highest grossing film of the year worldwide and earned Oscar® nominations for both sound and its groundbreaking visual effects. TWISTERS will be directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the Oscar® nominated writer and director of Minari, which earned six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, and won the Oscar® for Best Supporting Actress. The film is produced by five-time Best Picture nominee Frank Marshall, whose films include the Jurassic World franchise, the Indiana Jones franchise, the Bourne franchise, The Sixth Sense, The Color Purple and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Twisters will be produced by Marshall through his Kennedy/Marshall Company. The screenplay is by Mark L. Smith, who co-wrote the adapted screenplay of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s The Revenant, which earned 12 Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, and won three. TWISTERS will be co-financed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
