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‘They Really Fell From the Sky’: Jan de Bont Defends Twister’s Practical Effects
The director explains why, after getting scalped by a lion while making Roar, he had uniquely high expectations for his ’90s action movies.
In the summer of 2020, on the occasion of Vulture’s Friday Night Movie Club screening and livetweeting of the 1996 tornado epic Twister, we thought it’d be a good idea to reach out to Jan de Bont, the film’s director. Besides directing Twister and Speed(his directorial debut, starring the fresh-faced rising-star duo of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock), he was also the cinematographer on Die Hard and The Hunt for Red October(not to mention a number of early Paul Verhoeven films). All this talk of cinematic authenticity, I have to ask you about Roar, a crazy 1981 movie made with real lions that has generally been deemed the most dangerous film production of all time.
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