Twisters arrives in U.S.
theaters July 19
SAN
MATEO, Calif., July 17,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GoPro, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRO) takes
viewers inside the action for Universal Pictures, Warner Bros.
Pictures, and Amblin Entertainment's new film, Twisters,
arriving in U.S. theaters July 19. Able to withstand extreme
weather conditions, GoPro's versatile cameras played a pivotal role
in capturing the adrenaline-pumping action of the epic summer
thrill ride that puts audiences in direct contact with one of
nature's most wondrous—and destructive—forces.
"We're incredibly proud to have helped the Twisters
filmmaking team bring their vision to life," said Rick Loughery, GoPro VP of Global Marketing
& Communications. "Our cameras are designed to take users where
no other camera can go, making them the perfect tool for a movie
that explores the raw power of nature. While GoPro is no stranger
to the film industry, this collaboration perfectly highlights the
spectacular capability of GoPro's technology."
GoPro enabled the Twisters creative team to push the
boundaries of action cinematography. The cameras' compact size and
durability allowed them to be mounted on vehicles, weather
instruments, and even used by the actors on-set. In some of the
film's most intense scenes, the camera crew deployed up to 20 GoPro
cameras simultaneously to place the audience in the heart of
roaring tornadoes and harrowing escapes.
"Because of GoPro and their technology evolving over the years,
I've been able to evolve," said Frank
Zambetti, behind-the-scenes camera operator on
Twisters. "They're able to shoot high-speed so you can get
amazing slow motion. It's a camera you can virtually do anything
with. Sometimes on big action movies, like Twisters, I might
have 15-20 GoPro's running in one scene."
To check out more of GoPro's behind-the-scenes footage from
Twisters, head to GoPro's blog, The Current, or watch on
YouTube.
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About Twisters
This summer, the epic studio
disaster movie returns with an adrenaline-pumping, big-screen
thrill ride that puts you in direct contact with one of nature's
most wondrous—and destructive—forces.
From the producers of the Jurassic,
Bourne and Indiana
Jones series comes Twisters, a
current-day chapter of the 1996 blockbuster, Twister.
Directed by Lee Isaac Chung, the
Oscar® nominated writer-director of
Minari, Twisters stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (Where the Crawdads
Sing), Glen Powell (Top Gun:
Maverick) and Anthony Ramos
(Transformers: Rise of the Beasts) as equal forces,
with opposing motivations, who come together to try to predict, and
possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes.
Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Carter,
a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a
tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on
screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open
plains by her friend, Javi (Ramos) to test a groundbreaking
new tracking system. There, she crosses paths with Tyler Owens (Powell), the charming and reckless
social-media superstar who thrives on posting his storm-chasing
adventures with his raucous crew, the more dangerous the
better.
As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen
before are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler, Javi and their crews find
themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems
converging over central Oklahoma
in the fight of their lives.
Twisters features an exciting new cast, including
Nope's Brandon Perea, Golden
Globe winner Maura Tierney
(Beautiful Boy), Sasha Lane
(American Honey), Harry
Hadden-Paton (The Crown), David Corenswet (We Own This City),
Daryl McCormack (Peaky
Blinders), Tunde Adebimpe
(Leave the World Behind), Katy
O'Brian (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania),
Nik Dodani (Atypical),
Kiernan Shipka (Chilling
Adventures of Sabrina) and Paul
Scheer (Black Monday).
From Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and Amblin
Entertainment, Twisters is directed by Lee Isaac Chung and is produced by
Oscar® nominee Frank
Marshall (Jurassic and Indiana Jones
franchises) and by Patrick Crowley
(Jurassic and Bourne franchises). The screenplay is
by Mark L. Smith, writer of the Best
Picture nominee The Revenant, from a story by Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion), based on
characters created by Michael
Crichton & Anne-Marie
Martin. The executive producers are Academy
Award® winner Steven
Spielberg, Thomas Hayslip and
Ashley Jay Sandberg. Twisters
is distributed by Universal Pictures domestically and by
Warner Bros. Pictures internationally.
About Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures is a
division of Universal Studios (www.universalstudios.com). Universal
Studios is part of NBCUniversal. NBCUniversal is one of the world's
leading media and entertainment companies in the development,
production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to
a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable
portfolio of news and entertainment networks, a premier motion
picture company, significant television production operations, a
leading television stations group and world-renowned theme parks.
NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
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