The original Twister – released in 1996 – boasted a pretty impressive cast. Not only did Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt star in the lead roles, but there were also a wealth of supporting parts for the likes of Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Elwes and future Succession star Alan Ruck. For new film Twisters , it was therefore important to find an equally great line-up of actors to do battle with the extreme whether – and thankfully no shortage of big stars have been assembled for the "standalone sequel".
Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos lead the cast, while there are also roles for the likes of Daryl McCormack, Maura Tierney and soon-to-be Superman David Corenswet, among many more. Speaking exclusively to RadioTimes.com about casting the leads, director Lee Isaac Chung said that it was Edgar-Jones's "honesty" that stood out to him when he was looking for someone to play the main part of Kate.
"I just feel like anything I've seen her in, I feel like I'm going through whatever she's going through," he said. "And she brings such a deep human honesty to whatever she's doing that I just felt like if we can set that up against tornadoes, and this almost fantastical thing that's happening, it's gonna really help us feel that it's real. Meanwhile, he explained that Powell had a certain quality that made it seem like he had already known him for years even the very first time they met.
"In a weird way, he kind of reminds me of a lot of my friends growing up," he said. "H.