Anthony Ramos, Glen Powell Board ‘Twister’ Sequel at Universal
The upcoming Twister sequel at Universal is heating up. After Daisy Edgar-Jones was tapped as the lead earlier this year, Deadline is now reporting that both Anthony Ramos and Glen Powell are in talks to join the project, which Lee Isaac Chung (Minari) is directing.
After breaking out in Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born, Anthony Ramos is coming off the critical darling In the Heights, which severely underperformed in theaters when it opened two years ago. That gig landed him the leading role in the upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as well as a sizable part in the upcoming Ironheart series as The Hood, which he’s expected to play well beyond the Disney Plus venture.
In less franchise-centric stories, he also has a role in the upcoming Dumb Money feature from Craig Gillespie about the Wall Street chaos over GameStop’s stock rising after a coordinated Reddit campaign. He is also in post-production of the movie Distant, which he co-stars in with Naomi Scott (Aladdin); it’s about “an asteroid miner who, after crash-landing on an alien planet, must make his way across the harsh terrain, running out of oxygen, hunted by strange creatures, to the only other survivor.”
News about Glen Powell joining the project were first reported by Jeff Sneider on The Hot Mic podcast last Thursday, and Deadline immediately picked it up. Powell is also coming in hot after a breakout part in the hugely successful Top Gun: Maverick, a role that has immediately put him at the top of fan-made lists for several Marvel castings, namely X-Men characters. Despite that, Powell has been well advised by his team and has been taking on co-starring roles in small-to-mid-budget projects that over time will establish him as a household name. They include a buddy comedy from director Kat Coiro opposite Nick Jonas, an Argentinian action-thriller opposite Anthony Hopkins, and a romantic comedy opposite Sydney Sweeney that recently tapped Alexandra Shipp to co-star.
Lee Isaac Chung is directing from a script by Mark L. Smith. This is Chung’s first feature since his 2020 critical darling Minari, which gave him two Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay; the movie was also nominated for Best Picture, but since Chung was not a producer on it, he wasn’t listed there. However, he recently directed an episode of The Mandalorian and has returned for the spin-off Star Wars series Skeleton Crew, which wrapped production earlier this year.
The original Twister followed Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as two tornado-chasers on the edge of divorce. They want to create a state-of-the-art weather alert system, for which they will have to go to the center of the storms. The new film is set up at Universal, with Warner Bros. co-financing and Daisy Edgar-Jones leading. Details on the script remain under wraps, but there is a lot of room to explore modern themes of climate change and global warming.
Production on Twisters should take place within the next few months if all the pieces continue to fall in the right places.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
