Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily.

Today is Tuesday, July 9, 2024.

On today's episode of the show,

I'm going to present a conversation

with Twister, Director Yondabant.

Yondabant got his start as a cinematographer

in the Netherlands where he was born and he worked with

Paul Verhoven on some of Verhoven's pre-Hollywood projects.

After he came to Hollywood himself, DeBant eventually shot movies like Kujo, all the right moves, ruthless people, flatliners, basic

instinct, and action classics like Die Hard and the Hunt for Red October.

I actually interviewed him back in 2018 for Die Hard's 30th anniversary and we talked all about the making of that movie. I'm going to link to that in the show notes because it was a great conversation. I encourage fans of that movie to seek it out. There's one other notable movie that Jan shot when he was a

cinematographer. It's called Roar and it came out in 1981. If you've never heard

about the production of that movie, it is worth taking a few minutes and reading about it because there were real lions involved and something like 70 people were injured while making the film including Jan who was literally scalped while he was being attacked by a lion, truly wild stuff there.

Anyway, I'm telling you this because in the interview you're about to hear, I mentioned Roar,

so I wanted everybody to be on the same page.

In 1994, Jan got the chance to direct his first feature film, Speed, and his next movie was Twister, both of which featured uncredited rewrites by Joss Whedon, who Jan mentions during our conversation.

We've spoken recently on this podcast about how great both Speed and Twister are, so I was

psyched when I found out there would be an opportunity to get to speak with Yon about Twister

to celebrate the new 4K disk and digital release of the movie, which are available as of today.

Twister was the first movie to be released on DVD.

So this is something of a full circle moment

for the movie.

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