Audiences can’t get enough of tornadoes and/or Glen Powell’s handsome face, making “Twisters” one of the biggest box office successes of 2024. The reboot of the 1996 disaster movie “Twister” scored one of the highest-grossing opening weekends of the year and is poised to be a huge moneymaker, and its large-scale weather action seems tailor-made for the big screen.
Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones play storm chasers tracking an unprecedented confluence of weather events in the so-called Tornado Alley, while also possibly falling in love. Powell’s Tyler Owens is a charismatic daredevil who posts his tornado-chasing antics to his huge social media following, while Edgar-Jones’ Kate Carter is a more serious scientist who’s still processing the grief of losing close friends to a tornado. They compete to study and document the biggest tornadoes in Oklahoma, before collaborating to help alleviate the damage.
