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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Twisters and what's making us happy

Pop Culture Happy Hour

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Twister was one of the biggest disaster movies of the '90s. Now, it's finally got a sequel — one with an all-new cast, state-of-the-art effects, and a whole lot of tornadoes. The new film stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones as rival storm-chasers who have a habit of running into tornadoes while everyone else is fleeing. Twisters was directed by Lee Isaac Chung, who also directed the Oscar-nominated Minari.

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Visit NPR.org slash elections. Twister was one of the biggest disaster movies of the 90s. Now it's finally got a sequel,

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one with an all new cast, state of the effects, and a whole lot of tornadoes.

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The new film stars Glenn Powell and Daisy Edgar Jones as rival Storm Chasers who have a habit

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of running into tornadoes while everyone else is fleeing.

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I'm Linda Holmes.

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And I'm Stephen Thompson.

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Today we are talking about Twisters on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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Joining us today is NPR producer. on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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Joining us today is NPR producer Mark Rivers.

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Hey Mark,

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Hey Stephen, good to see you guys.

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Also with us is writer Shay Vasser.

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Welcome back, Shay.

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Thanks for having me.

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It is great to have you both. So ordinarily when we talk about

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sequels we have to run down the plot and cast of the original but in this case the

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only strong connective thread between Twister and Twisters is that both films are about people who chase tornadoes in the hope of studying them.

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In Twisters, we meet two rival teams of Storm Chasers. One is polished and science-driven, and led in part by Harvey, played by Anthony Ramos.

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Harvey recruits his former colleague Kate, played by Daisy Edgar Jones, to join them.

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The two of them survived a deadly tornado together years earlier, but the incident scarred her.

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