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Joseph Kosinski in Talks to Direct ‘Twister’ Remake at

A film remake of the twister movie “Twister” is in growth at Universal Pictures, and “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski is in negotiations to direct the remake of the 1996 blockbuster, a person with data of the mission instructed TheWrap.

Frank Marshall is producing the movie, and the studio is at present looking for a screenwriter.

The unique “Twister” starred Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as two superior storm chasers in Oklahoma who’re on the point of divorce however should work collectively to create a climate alert system and may solely accomplish that by placing themselves in the best way of violent and lethal tornadoes. Plot particulars for the remake weren’t disclosed.

Jan De Bont directed the 1996 movie that $494 million worldwide on the field workplace and was nominated for 2 Oscars, together with for Best Visual Effects for its forward of its time particular impact work.

Sara Scott, the SVP of manufacturing at Universal, will oversee the remake for the studio.

Kosinski is one thing of an results wizard himself, getting his begin with the 2010 sequel “TRON: Legacy” and following that up with the Tom Cruise sci-fi “Oblivion.” His movie “Top Gun: Maverick” expects to hit theaters this Christmas 2020.

Kosinski is represented by CAA.

Variety first reported the information of the remake.

10 Best Remakes of the 2010s, From ‘Cinderella’ to ‘It’ (Photos)

Remakes have been part of the studio machine since not less than way back to 1904 when the groundbreaking “The Great Train Robbery” was reshot and resold. In the century-plus that adopted, remakes have gotten a foul identify for themselves and, to some, are indicative of the inventive emptiness of the mainstream leisure trade. But look nearer and also you’ll discover that many filmmakers are doing great issues by taking previous tales and making them new once more, both by including visible aptitude or injecting nuance the place, maybe, there was little to be discovered earlier than. Some of the most effective films of the final decade had been remakes. And these, we dare say, had been the 10 greatest.
Runners-Up (alphabetically): “About Last Night” (2014), “Benji” (2018), “The Crazies” (2010), “Frankenweenie” (2012), “Ghostbusters” (2016), “The Jungle Book” (2016), “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017), “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (2013), “A Star Is Born” (2018), “We Are What We Are” (2013)
10. “Let Me In” (2010)

Tomas Alfredson’s trendy basic Swedish vampire drama “Let the Right One In” was solely two years previous when Matt Reeves remade it for American audiences, however “Let Me In” is something however a superfluous rehash. Kodi Smit-McPhee and Chloë Grace Moretz convey their very own ache and heat to their characters (a bullied boy and the immortal vampire who takes a shine to him, respectively), and Reeves provides a handful of grotesque shocks that make Alfredson’s icy unique appear extra brutal than earlier than. “Let the Right One In” is the extra mature and sleek movie, however “Let Me In” is an expertly crafted crowdpleaser, equally legitimate however made for barely completely different tastes.

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9. “Pete’s Dragon” (2016)

Of the latest spate of Disney blockbuster remakes, David Lowery’s “Pete’s Dragon” is by far the loosest. Lowery transforms the unique, quirky and weird musical right into a targeted and elegiac household fantasy about an orphaned boy raised by a dragon within the woods, and the household who desires to convey him again into the world with out absolutely perceive what he would possibly lose within the course of. Gorgeously photographed and sensitively acted, the brand new “Pete’s Dragon” is its personal beast, stuffed with attraction and love and ambition, and arguably higher than the unique.

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