Because audiences had actually seen them, anything less than a believable depiction wouldn’t be sufficient. It was a uniquely ambitious undertaking-after all, tornadoes weren’t velociraptors and friendly ghosts. Still, the company had never attempted anything like replicating a force of nature. By the mid-’90s, it brought dinosaurs back from extinction for Jurassic Park, conjured fully interactive CG characters for Casper, and devised textured digital animal fur for Jumanji. Starting with its work on Star Wars, ILM had revolutionized cinematic special effects. “He called ILM and said, ‘Can you guys do this?’” “Steven liked to have us do tests for things that hadn’t been done before,” says Stefen Fangmeier, the project’s VFX supervisor. They wanted to find out if the Bay Area–based visual effects behemoth-founded by George Lucas in 1975-had the ability to make virtual tornadoes. Specifically, one Steven Spielberg and his producing partner Kathleen Kennedy issued to Industrial Light & Magic. The story of how Twister was created begins with a challenge. Welcome to The Ringer ’s Return to Summer Blockbuster Season, where we’ll feature different summer classics each week. 2020’s summer blockbuster season has been put on hold because of the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean we can’t celebrate the movies from the past that we flocked out of the sun and into air conditioning for.

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