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Deadline is reporting that Twisters, a forthcoming sequel to the disaster film Twister, is in the works and that the studio is looking at several directors.
Shot on location in Oklahoma, the technical-effects-heavy set of
Twister was laden with problems across its five-months shoot, from various rewrites happening all the way through the first two weeks of production to weather and physical taxation on its actors and crew.
Ruck, who had previously worked with de Bont on his acclaimed directorial debut
Speed two years prior, looks back fondly on the production in spite of some of these issues, even laughing at the recollection that the former cinematographer’s catchphrase on set throughout the shoot was “F ing Hell Shit!”
“He was demanding, but everybody was so behind him, the whole crew was behind him because it was like, ‘Wow, one of us made it over the line, baby,” Ruck warmly recalled of the Keanu Reeves-starring production. “A cinematographer’s directing a picture, and so the camera crew was just outstanding and we had a lot of fun. We had like, 12 different buses. It was insane, we had the 105 freeway all