Interview: Twister Director Jan de Bont Reflects on Disaster Movie Ahead of 4K Release By ComingSoon spoke to Twister director Jan de Bont to celebrate the coming out on 4K Ultra HD Disc and Digital for the first time on July 9. De Bont discussed the film’s opening, working with Philip Seymour Hoffman, and more. “Don’t breathe! Don’t look back! Just run for your life when a destructive force of nature comes howling straight toward you, destroying everything in its path – when you’re running from a Twister.
Academy Award winner Helen Hunt stars as Dr. Jo Thornton-Harding, who as a small girl watched her father sucked to his death from her family’s storm cellar by a massive tornado. Now a storm chaser, a scientist who risks her life to study the dark side of nature by taking her data-transmitting instruments directly into the path of a deadly storm, Jo chases the largest tornado ever to strike Oklahoma as her marriage implodes and rival scientists will stop at nothing to steal her breakthrough,” reads the synopsis.
: He absolutely shines and he’s one of the best things in the movie, I think. Because he’s so real. So this sloppiness, the way he glorifies it almost, as sloppiness [and] the way he communicates with the other team members, he makes everything like a little bit of a spectacle, but in a fun way.
He can make a theme work even though there was not much into it. He can make it work for you, and he can make it really special and unique, and it’s so .
