Helen Hunt; Daveed Diggs.Photo: David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty, Monica Schipper/Getty
Daveed Diggsis reflecting on theTwistersequel that could have been.
Speaking withInsiderfor an interview published Wednesday, theHamiltonstar said he was “not going to get into” the reasons the rumored sequel was never made, “mostly because I’m probably going to misremember things.”
“But all I’ll say is there was an opportunity where we were talking about that, and it didn’t happen, and the reasons that it didn’t happen are potentially shady,” added Diggs, 41.
“But shady in the way that we know the industry is shady,” he said.
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Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt inTwister(1996).Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection
According to Hunt, who would’ve also directed, the movie was set to feature"all Black and Brown storm chasers,“but the powers that be “wouldn’t do it.”
“Wecould barely get a meeting, and this is in June of 2020 when itwas all about diversity. And it would’ve have been so cool,” continued the 59-year-old actress.
“There was a HBCU [historically Black college and university] where we wanted it to take place, and a rocket-science club, and in this one, they shoot the rockets into the tornado,” Hunt added. “It was gonna be so cool.”
Reps for Hunt and Universal Pictures did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s requests for comment Wednesday afternoon.
Twister(1996).Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection
Universal Pictures announced this past December that a follow-up film titledTwisters, is set for theatrical release on July 19, 2024.
PEOPLE previously confirmed that the studio and Amblin Entertainmentwere working on the film.Mark L. Smith, who penned 2015’sThe Revenant, is writing the sequel, withJurassic World Dominion’sFrank Marshallproducing.Lee Isaac Chung(Minari) will direct.
Twister, released in 1996, starred Hunt and the lateBill Paxtonas two storm-chasing scientists trying to collect data on a series of powerful tornados.
source: people.com
