You can say what you like about Glen Powell. And many people do, however unfairly – that he came out of nowhere, that he’s a dumb jock in place of a leading man, that he looks like a capybara (ok, that one’s fair). But the star of Hit Man, Top Gun: Maverick and Anyone But You really knows how to pick a blockbuster. Because Twisters is set to be the box office smash of the summer.
Twisters is a reboot of 1996’s Twister, which was also a box office smash, raking in $494.5 million worldwide; perhaps a good indication of audience interest in weather-based action movies. But Twisters is unrelated to the original other than its characters being beset by tornadoes. A bad script would have killed it, especially as the original hardly has the cult following that brings an inbuilt audience — it wasn’t exactly a Top Gun: Maverick no-brainer.
