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Twisters Director Lee Isaac Chung Has Survived a Real-Life Tornado

Usually when a sequel comes out 28 years after the original, you can attribute it to money. But Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung has a surprisingly personal

His last film, the Oscar-winning Minari, was a small, personal story loosely based on his experiences growing up in Arkansas with his parents, who moved from South Korea with dreams of farming. Universal PicturesTwisters, which returns to the world of the 1996 Twister, starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, follows Daisy Edgar-Jones as Kate Carter, an ex-storm chaser who is haunted by a disastrous encounter with a tornado during her college years. Kate is studying storm patterns from the safety of New York City when she’s lured back to the open plains by her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos).

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