Crews setting up to start shooting 'Twister' sequel in parts of Oklahoma
The sequel is scheduled to be released during the summer of 2024
The sequel is scheduled to be released during the summer of 2024
The sequel is scheduled to be released during the summer of 2024
The blockbuster movie "Twister" is back in the Sooner State as production crews have set up around Oklahoma to shoot the movie's upcoming sequel.
Parts of downtown Oklahoma City will remain temporarily closed until around 11 p.m. Tuesday while crews film. The closures are from Park and North Harvey all the way to Broadway and then Robinson from Main and Robert S. Kerr.
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Police are out monitoring the area and helping with detours. Officials said this could change depending on the weather.
The "Twister" sequel not only is calling downtown Oklahoma City home during shooting, but crews are also in Okarche.
Police asked people traveling to El Reno to be aware of road closures. Officials said drivers will need to continue east on Northwest Expressway past the El Reno exit and then use Old 81 Access to go south.
This comes almost exactly 27 years after the original "Twister" hit theaters. The blockbuster movie starring the late Bill Paxton, Helen Hunt, Cary Elwes and future Oscar winner Philip Seymour Hoffman touched down on May 10, 1996.
"Twister" would go on to bring in more than $240 million at the domestic box office. Only "Independence Day" topped it, grossing about $306 million.
"Twister" earned nearly $500 million globally.
In May 2021, the Twister Movie Museum in Wakita celebrated the movie's 25th anniversary.
The sequel, which is titled "Twisters" on IMDb.com, is slated to be released on July 19, 2024. Details about the plot have not been released, but IMDB.com notes that Glen Powell ("Top Gun: Maverick"), Anthony Ramos ("In the Heights") and Daisy Edgar-Jones ("Where the Crawdads Sing") are attached to the movie.
Lee Isaac Chung, who directed the Oklahoma-shot film "Minari," is directing the sequel. Mark L. Smith, screenwriter of "The Revenant," will write the screenplay.
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