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Twisters doesn’t mention climate change to avoid saying anything ‘message-oriented’

Twisters’ director doesn’t want you thinking it’s about climate change.

Though Universal’s Twisters is set to drop as the US deals with a massive heatwave, wildfires, and the aftermath of multiple deadly storms, the movie goes out of its way to avoid mentioning climate change because its director didn’t want to make audiences uncomfortable. But in a recent interview with CNN, director Lee Isaac Chung said that, even though he thinks cinema “should be a reflection of the world,” he avoided mentioning climate change in Twisters because he doesn’t “feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.” As a weather disaster sequel whose premise boils down to “what if tornadoes, but bigger and sometimes on fire,” Twisters seems like it would have been well positioned to explore the realities of how researchers are still trying to understand the relationship between climate change and the kinds of storms that cause catastrophic destruction.

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