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

/ Twisters director Lee Isaac Chung says the movie doesn’t talk about climate change because he didn’t want audiences to feel as if they were being ‘preached’ to.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

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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.

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