TWISTERS - July - Trailer

[AndyDursin]

Funny enough, we watched TWISTER just a couple of weeks ago with Theo (1st viewing in 20+ years for us). This looks like an agreeable MAVERICK-ed "requel" complete with Glen Powell starring.

[Monterey Jack]

Directed by the master of roiling visual kinesis, the man who gave us this...!



Remember when you have to have SOME experience making this kind of F/X movie before you got handed a big franchise reboot? Spielberg had been making F/X movies for almost twenty years before Jurassic Park. Tim Burton had two F/X-intensive comedies (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice) before getting handed Batman. Hell, Jan De Bont had been an ace action/thriller cinematographer for over 20 years before getting to make his directorial debut on Speed, which led directly to the original Twister.

Recently the solid action filmmaker and stuntman David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, the upcoming Fall Guy) was attached to the forthcoming Jurassic Park re-reboot...for about a day, citing "creative differences" for walking away. More like Universal just wanted some indie-movie puppet who would point the camera where they wanted and would keep the actors in focus in front of the greenscreen while the F/X team did all of the work.

[AndyDursin]

One movie is all you need these days.

Sadly it doesn't matter pretty much at all now. These directors are technicians pretty much today on movies like this. Very little "director's vision" is in evidence in these films, not like 30 years ago when it was clear when you were watching a film by Tim Burton, Joe Dante, Paul Verhoeven or whoever.

[AndyDursin]

Recently the solid action filmmaker and stuntman David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, the upcoming Fall Guy) was attached to the forthcoming Jurassic Park re-reboot...for about a day, citing "creative differences" for walking away. More like Universal just wanted some indie-movie puppet who would point the camera where they wanted and would keep the actors in focus in front of the greenscreen while the F/X team did all of the work.

Going back to this, I do have to defend what they're doing with JURASSIC, because like TWISTERS, remember it's a Spielberg production -- not just a studio property, it's still "his" baby.

This JURASSIC project does sound interesting and is a little bit different in that nobody scheduled this movie for 2025. In fact they didnt have any date slotted -- unlike how Disney operates scheduling dates first and coming up with scripts second. The project came together because David Koepp had an idea and wrote a script that got them all excited. So Spielberg pushes to fast track it because the last movie was pretty lame but still made a fortune -- looks to me like a sign of confidence. HOPEFULLY.

With all due respect to Leitch, they don't need an auteur. Like we said before, they need technicians, but in this instance, they have a script and that's the driving force in getting this made. The storyboards are probably already done. They undoubtedly have a VFX team already mapping out set-pieces. Spielberg needs a director to make it, and if Leitch (or anyone) thought he was going to implant his "creative vision" on the movie or influence where the story is going -- forgetaboutit. Those elements are already set in place.