Helen Hunt Says Studios Rejected Her Idea for 'Twister' Sequel With "All Black and Brown Storm Chasers"

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BY RACHEL LEISHMAN - Collider




We really could have had it all as Helen Hunt wanted to direct and co-write a sequel to Twister with her Blindspotting producers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal. The 25th anniversary of the 1996 film came with fans wanting a follow-up to the storm chasing film. Watching as Hunt and Bill Paxton fought against the elements, many were enraptured by the story and Twister remains a classic to this day.

Hunt, who was promoting her upcoming role on Blindspotting, was talking about the sequel she wanted to make and revealed on Watch What Happens Live that studios would barely meet with her about her idea, which included Black and brown storm chasers this time and would be directed by Hunt herself.



As Hunt tells it:

“I tried to get it made. With Daveed [Diggs] and Rafael [Casal] and me writing it, and all Black and brown storm chasers, and they wouldn’t do it. I was going to direct it.”

It is honestly upsetting that the unnamed studio wouldn’t even hear Hunt out. Especially given how amazing both Diggs and Casal are.

Hunt went on to talk about how no one would meet with them despite this being at the height of the diversity conversations of 2020. “We could barely get a meeting, and this is in June of 2020 when it was all about diversity. It would have been so cool.”

Cohen and Hunt spoke briefly about whether or not she would return to the sequel as Dr. Jo Harding and she teased that she’d play an “elder, tired, haggard” version of the doctor and even went as far to say that she’d die in a tornado in the opening scene. But while it would be nice to see Dr. Jo Harding again, it would be even nicer to see this version of a Twister sequel that Hunt, Diggs, and Casal were working on.

You can see Hunt in the television series Blindspotting which premiered on June 13 on Starz. Hopefully, we’ll get to see Dr. Jo Harding once more in a Twister sequel (and hopefully one directed by Hunt and written by Diggs and Casal!).

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Helen, you stupid cunt, they already tried this with ghostbusters and it was a tremendous flop. Nobody wants to see all the old movies remade with blackbrown people instead of white.

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Sounds like a has been is trying to become relevant in this political climate to raise her visibility.

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Nobody liked The Wiz

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The Wiz proved to be a commercial failure, as the $24 million production only earned $13.6 million at the box office.[2][3][11] Though prerelease television broadcast rights had been sold to CBS for over $10 million, in the end, the film produced a net loss of $10.4 million for Motown and Universal.[3][11] At the time, it was the most expensive film musical ever made.[23] The film's failure steered Hollywood studios away from producing the all-black film projects that had become popular during the blaxploitation era of the early to mid-1970s for several years.[4][5][6]

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No, its capitalist

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No, its capitalist

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