*Actor Daveed Diggs, co-creator of the Starz series “Blindspotting,” has weighed in on the reason his planned sequel to the 1996 film “Twister” featuring a diverse cast was ultimately shut down.
Back in June 2021, original star Helen Hunt, who currently stars in “Blindspotting,” said that an unnamed studio “wouldn’t do” a sequel featuring “all Black and brown storm chasers,” adding, “We could barely get a meeting. And this is in June of 2020 when it was all about diversity.”
Insider caught up with Diggs recently and asked him about the doomed project.
“Oh man, I’m not going to get into it 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. But shady in the way that we know the industry is shady.”
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Diggs was slated to write the “Twister” sequel with Hunt and “Blindspotting” co-creator Rafael Casal.
Meanwhile, a separate “Twister” sequel is now in development at Universal Pictures, with “Minari” director Lee Isaac Chung attached under the title “Twisters,” according to Insider. Due in July 2024, the story is confirmed to follow the daughter of the characters played by Hunt and Bill Paxton. Casting has yet to be announced.
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