• In “Twisters,” Daisy Edgar-Jones will play the lead role.
• Smith is writing the script. 2024 is the projected year of release.
• Daisy was chosen for the role after Daisy’s performance in “Normal People.”

The ‘Normal People‘ actress has been chosen for Lee Isaac Chung’s remake of the popular 1996 movie ‘Twister.

Warner Bros. is helping to co-finance the film, while Mark L. Smith is writing the script. 2024 is the projected year of release.

When it was first released, the movie “Twister” with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton in the key parts was a tremendous hit. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer and Jan De Bont served as director of the original film.

The filmmaker said: “Daisy can very easily drop into that very vulnerable, sensitive, shy place but then she also has this incredible grit and resilience that catches you off-guard.

“[She requested a movement coach] to help her shed her Britishness and get into that Southern marsh girl way of being.”

Daisy was chosen for the role after Daisy’s performance in “Normal People,” says the film’s producer Elizabeth Gabler and her coworker Reese Witherspoon from Hello Sunshine.

She said: “We’d been watching the show and were like, ‘Let’s go to Daisy Edgar-Jones right now.’

“We sent her the script on a Thursday and she auditioned on the Sunday, by which time she’d already perfected the accent.

“Daisy brought us all to our knees in her audition, she blew us away.”

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