It had been 28 years since the original Twister wowed audiences on the big screen with its portrayal of the chaotic destruction of a tornado. Now, Twisters had to up that ante with many different tornadoes on the big screen, with a world audience hungry for bigger and better realism.

With technological improvements, VFX supervisor Ben Snow returns to Twisters after working on the original film decades earlier, sort of in a reunion.

Twisters features a brand-new cast that stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads Sing), Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick), and Anthony Ramos (Transformers: Rise of the Beasts). The rest of the cast includes Brandon Perea (Nope), Maura Tierney (Beautiful Boy), Sasha Lane (American Honey), Harry Hadden-Paton (The Crown), David Corenswet (We Own This City), Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders), Tunde Adebimpe (Leave the World Behind), Katy O’Brian (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania), Nik Dodani (Atypical), Kiernan Shipka (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina), and Paul Scheer (Black Monday).

Lee Isaac Chung directed the film based on a screenplay by Mark L. Smith and a story by Joseph Kosinski. Michael Crichton and Anne Marie Crichton created the characters.

Here is the brief synopsis:

Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Carter, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains by her friend, Javi (Ramos) to test a groundbreaking new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the better.

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LRM Online’s Gig Patta chatted with VFX supervisor Ben Snow about the behind-the-scenes magic of creating different twisters for the film, including working with meteorologists, storm chasers, and personal experience.

Ben Snow is a visual effects supervisor for ILM. Some of his other credits included Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Mother!, The Great Wall, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Noah, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and Iron Man 2.

Twisters is currently in theaters today and now available digitally for home theater.

Watch the exclusive interview with Ben Snow below. Let us know what you think of the interview.

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Source: LRM Online Exclusive, NBCUniversal