Glen Powell took to social media to pay tribute to Twister star Bill Paxton. “As we release Twisters into the world today, I just wanted to look up and tip my hat to the legend that is Bill Paxton,” Powell wrote in the caption of a photo of himself alongside the late actor. “A great friend of mine who saw poetry in the natural world. His boots are impossible to fill, but this life is all about chasing the greats.”
Powell and Paxton became good friends while filming the 2013 movie Red Wing. Both actors are from Texas, so naturally, they hit it off. In a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Powell recalled his relationship with Paxton, who died in 2017 from a stroke at 61. Powell spoke about Paxton’s love for the weather and how the late actor gave him research from Apollo 13 to prepare for Hidden Fences. Paxton even taught Powell an acting tip that the budding star used on Twisters. “As an actor, sometimes you have to shoot outdoors and you’re kind of squinting and whatnot and he taught me this trick that if you close your eyes and you look up at the sun, it warms your eyes up to the sun and you can open your eyes,” Powell told Colbert. “So while we were shooting Twisters, I was shooting outdoors the whole time so I’d used that trick my entire career since meeting Bill. And on Twisters I really felt like every time I closed my eyes, I got to think of Bill, which was great.”
Twister is available on Max, while Twisters is now in theaters. Glen Powell will be sprinting into theaters next Thanksgiving. Paramount announced a slew of release dates for its upcoming film slate, led by Edgar Wright’s reboot of The Running Man starring Powell. The Running Man will be released theatrically on November 21, 2025. The film faces tough competition at the box office as it opens against Wicked: Part Two and a Warner Bros. event movie.
The Running Man is based on Stephen King’s 1982 dystopian novel of the same name. Set in 2025, The Running Man follows Ben Richards, a man who, in need of money, signs up to appear on The Running Man, a deadly game show that promotes violence and murder. Powell will star as Richards in the remake.
The Running Man was previously adapted into a 1987 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film received mixed reviews but has since developed a cult-like status. Wright’s adaptation is reportedly more faithful to King’s novel than the Schwarzenegger-led movie.
This weekend is a blast from the past thanks to Twisters, a disaster thriller by director Lee Isaac Chung. Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, and Anthony Ramos play storm chasers who fight for their lives after multiple tornadoes converge in Oklahoma. Twisters is a standalone sequel to 1996’s Twister, a film many still hold dear to their hearts. Directed by Jan de Bont, Twister stars Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton as two storm chasers who set out to deploy a data-gathering device that could change the way scientists study tornadoes. The blockbuster is a spectacle of epic proportions that still holds up even in 2024. Here’s why Twister still rules.
In May 1996, audiences experienced the wild lives of storm chasers in Jan de Bont’s Twister. The epic disaster film starring Helen Hunt and the late Bill Paxton was a thrilling adventure that became 1996’s second-highest-grossing film. Now, 28 years later, another dangerous storm is brewing in the standalone sequel Twisters. As a tentpole blockbuster, Twisters is looking to recapture the visceral joys of Twister while depicting a new, original story. Headlined by an emerging cast of budding stars, Twisters could become one of the summer’s biggest movies. Here is everything you need to know about Twisters.
