Twisters (Original Motion Picture Score) releases today from Back Lot Music with music by Grammy- and Emmy-nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch. The soundtrack is available today, August 2, on digital platforms. The soundtrack is also available to pre-order now on physical courtesy of Mutant. Twisters, from Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, is in theaters now.
From the producers of the Jurassic and Bourne series, and the director of Minari, Lee Isaac Chung, Twisters marks the return of the epic studio disaster movie. Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a former storm chaser haunted by her past, her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos), and Tyler (Glen Powell), a reckless social-media superstar storm chaser, come together to try to predict, and possibly tame, the immense power of tornadoes. As storm season intensifies, terrifying phenomena never seen before are unleashed, and Kate, Javi, Tyler and their crews find themselves squarely in the paths of multiple storm systems converging over central Oklahoma in the fight of their lives.
Wallfisch reflects on the score, “It was such a thrill and joy to work with director Lee Isaac Chung on Twisters. Even in the most intense and powerful action pieces he still manages to always make it feel personal and about the characters. The sheer power and majesty of the storms is always grounded in us rooting for Kate, Tyler, Javi and all the others, and finding a way to capture that balance and tone was the main starting point for the score. As a huge fan of the 1996 movie, it was an honor to have been invited to be a part of this incredible film.”
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.
Nearly three decades after the first Twister set box office records and elevated the art of the disaster movie, Twisters ignited an epic storm for a new generation. The film opened as the top movie in North America, earning an impressive $81.25 million and blowing away industry expectations to become both the biggest opening in history for a disaster film and the second-biggest live-action film opening of the year.
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 BENJAMIN WALLFISCH
Golden Globe, BAFTA, 2x Grammy, Emmy and 5x World Soundtrack Award nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch has worked on over 80 feature films. His most recent projects include Twisters, directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Alien: Romulus, directed by Fede Alvarez, both of which will release this summer, 2024. Wallfisch also scored Kraven the Hunter, directed by J. C. Chandor which will release in December 2024.
Benjamin’s most-known work includes Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 (with Hans Zimmer), Andy Muschietti’s It and It Chapter Two, David F. Sandberg’s Shazam!, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man, Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives, Andy Muschietti’s The Flash for DC / Warner Bros, and Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat.
Other notable projects include Academy Award® Best Picture nominee, Hidden Figures, directed by Ted Melfi (co-composed with Pharrell Williams and Hans Zimmer), David F. Sandberg’s box office hit Annabelle: Creation, Gore Verbinski’s A Cure for Wellness, the Steven Spielberg produced short film Auschwitz, directed by James Moll, James Marsh’s King of Thieves, and Steven Knight’s Serenity. On the invitation of Hans Zimmer, he contributed music based on Elgar’s ‘Enigma’ Variations for Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.
To date, his movies as composer have made over $2.6 billion in worldwide box office receipts, and in 2019 Variety inducted him into their ‘Billion Dollar Composer’ series in recognition of this.
With over 25 albums of his music released, Benjamin has performed live in over 100 concerts worldwide, leading orchestras such as the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony at venues including the Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House and Royal Festival Hall. He has collaborated, recorded and performed his music with artists including Lang Lang, Herbie Hancock and Yuja Wang and has over 50 concert music commissions to his name.
Benjamin is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and British Academy of Film and Television Arts and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London. In 2019 he founded The Scoring Lab, a state-of-the art scoring production company and Dolby Atmos Certified mix studio in the heart of Santa Monica, California.
TRACKLIST
- Nature’s Masterpiece
- Team Kate
- Javi
- This Car’s Gonna Fly
- Aftermath
- She Told Us East
- Shifting Path
- The Race
- Complete the Triangle
- Rodeo
- After the Storm
- Tornado Theory
- Everyone Into Position
- Refinery
- Kate’s Theme
- El Reno
- Twisters
- You Did It, Kate
- If You Feel It, Chase It
