All the Ways “Twisters” References the Original Blockbuster: From “The Wizard of Oz” to a Moving Cameo

Here’s how Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell are following in Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton’s windswept footsteps

If you feel it, chase it. And if you feel Twister references in Twisters, chase them.

The new film starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell (in theaters now) is a standalone sequel to the Jan de Bont-directed 1996 disaster thriller starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. And although the movies don’t share actors or characters, they’re connected by more than just similar titles.

Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung recently told Variety that he sought “to honor that first film and those elements that I love about it, but also to try to let this be something that is coming from me.”

Read on for some of the fun ways Chung and the Twisters cast paid homage to the original hit.

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Bill Paxton’s son makes a cameo

James Paxton, son of the Twister star who died in 2017, makes a cameo in the new film. The 30-year-old actor plays a motel guest making mundane complaints, unaware that an errant nocturnal tornado is rapidly approaching. He doesn’t follow Edgar-Jones’ Kate Carter and Powell’s Tyler Owens into a safe underground space and — as is tradition with these movies — is swept up into the terrifying storm.

"It's really a cameo, so it's an Easter egg for the fans of Dad and the original. I did this one for Dad," the actor told Entertainment Weekly. "I wanted to be a conduit for his spirit there and cheer everyone in this production on to success, because I know he would be," he added.

The Wizard of Oz returns to Oklahoma

A tornado may have swept Dorothy out of Kansas, but she touches down in Oklahoma in both Twister and Twisters. In the original, Hunt’s Jo Harding and Paxton’s Bill Harding develop capsule devices nicknamed Dorothy with weather sensors that enable the storm chasers to revolutionize tornado research.

Early in the standalone sequel, Anthony Ramos’ character Javier Rivera reveals what looks like the next generation in that storm research with another capsule named Dorothy. Later, his Storm Par squad includes codenames that further reference The Wizard of Oz, with the teams of “Scarecrow,” “Tin Man” and “Lion” setting up 3-D tornado scanners.

Fun fact: Twister didn’t just link Dorothy to its research devices because tornadoes feature in The Wizard of Oz. A real-life weather instrument called TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory) exists, inspired by L. Frank Baum’s Toto the dog.

Related: What Happened to Helen Hunt's Rejected Twister Sequel Idea? 'It Would Have Been So Cool'

Red tornado-chasing trucks

To be a storm chaser, you generally need a cool truck. As Twister and Twisters makes clear, there’s nothing cooler than red.

Both Paxton’s and Powell’s characters get a lot of use out of their rust-red Dodge Ram vehicles — driving off-road, through fences or buildings and, of course, being tossed violently by twisters.

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White tank tops and khaki pants are back

Remakes and sequels often pay homage to original films by using subtle costume design. Hunt’s wardrobe in the original includes a memorable white tank top with khaki pants and jacket. Because she’s in bad-ass action-star mode, said jacket is often tied around her waist.

In Twisters, Edgar-Jones, 26, is in one extended sequence the spitting image of Hunt, 61, thanks to costume designer Eunice Jera Lee. References to the original didn’t end there for the character: Edgar-Jones’ Kate also at one point wears an oversized baseball jersey that calls back to one worn by a young boy in the final scene of Twister. “It’s the same style jersey, with a slightly tweaked graphic,” Lee revealed to Entertainment Weekly.

Rag-tag storm chasers

Lee’s costume design was also clearly inspired by one iconic character from the 1996 hit: Dusty Davies, played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. Equally enthusiastic about chasing storms and eating, Dusty sported long hair, casual caps, floral prints and tie-dye.

In Twisters, that aesthetic carries over into the rowdy team of tornado-chasing filmmakers played by Brandon Perea, Sasha Lane, Tunde Adebimpe and Katy O'Brian. Perea’s character “rocks some tie-dye," Lee told EW, while Lane’s “pants have swatches of floral fabric, all nods to Dusty’s wardrobe prints.”

Related: Twister Director Reflects on Working with Late Bill Paxton and Philip Seymour Hoffman: They Were 'Shapeshifters'

Tornadoes disrupting moviegoing

In one of the most memorable movie-within-movie moments of all time, Twister includes a scene in which a tornado viciously interrupts a drive-in movie theater screening. The movie playing? Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall’s terrifying The Shining, of course.

Twisters recreates the meta element of watching a moviegoing experience disrupted by weather in its climax, which sees the main characters gathering the residents of a small town into a movie theater as an F5 tornado descends. The cinema’s screen, roof and even chairs are eaten up by the intense winds. Watching these movies, you’re not likely to experience the same catastrophe — but keep an eye on weather advisory warnings, because you never know.

Twisters is in theaters now.

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