#Action movie fx tornado movie#
People are always seeking that, whether intentional or unintentional, so this film delivers on that, but it delivers in the safety of being in a movie theater, where you can hang onto your loved one while you’re watching it and not be in harm’s way in reality. You want to see what it’s like to be right there in the middle of a tornado? When you mentioned something about global climate change, and we touched upon it a little bit in the film, but I wanted to be careful because first and foremost, this is an entertaining ride. I think that helps engage in dealing with it. I think that the first person narrative I used to tell the story with the handheld cameras and so forth gives it a certain immediacy and realism to it that you wouldn’t get in a glossy Hollywood movie.
It’s a personal story told by the people who are engaged in trying to just survive.
Quale: My feeling on that is we embrace the human condition and how it rises up to adverse situations like this as opposed to glorifying the destruction. Approaching a movie like this where you’re dealing with something that might be sensitive to areas where they’re in danger of twisters all the time, how do you deal with that? Some of the things that you think were petty when you first started, you realize what’s really important is family and the loved ones, even if it’s external family, per se.ĬS: It’s a very timely subject matter now in terms of it’s always in the news, all the devastation of tornadoes, maybe more now than 20 years ago. You rise to the occasion, you help one another. It’s almost an awe and a respect that you have for the forces that we feel so insignificant as humans on the scale of what these systems could do, that it’d be great to tell the human story about these people trying to react, fight, and survive, to run away from this disaster, and what happens to a community when you sort of group together in adverse situations like that. What I thought I could bring to the table was a sense of realism because we have a lot of summer movies–and having done a horror movie that involves an excessive over-the-top type of event–I thought, well, if we can show the incredible power of Mother Nature. I liked the script – I thought that it was a very engaging story that was told through a lot of peoples’ points of view as they’re all witnessing this event. I never actually witnessed a tornado myself in person, but I knew exactly what they were like and what potential devastating power that they have. I was very intrigued because I grew up in the Midwest and experienced severe storms and tornado warnings. Steven Quale: Well, what happened is Todd Garner came up with the idea and John Swetnam wrote the script and they brought it to New Line and New Line immediately said, “We have the perfect director for this,” so they gave me the script. We see the results of that devastation through the eyes of a group of stormchasers, including Sarah Wayne Callies (“The Walking Dead”), Matt Walsh, Jeremy Sumpter and Arlen Escarpeta, as well as a father (Richard Armitage from “The Hobbit”) and his two sons.Ĭ sat down with Quale earlier this week for an extended chat about the making of his latest movie.ĬS: You directed “Final Destination 5” and before that you directed a few docs and some shorts, so what led you to directing more of a real world disaster flick? It takes place in a fictional town in the Midwest that’s about to become the center of a number of twisters that are expected to converge into an enormous super-twister. At the time, he was coming off a long run working with James Cameron, doing second unit directing on a couple of little movies called Avatar and Titanic and directing the IMAX doc Aliens of the Deep, and he showed an enormous amount of confidence as the director of his first dramatic feature film.įinal Destination 5 certainly turned a lot of heads, especially among fans of that franchise (such as myself), and now Quale is back with Into the Storm, a far more reality-based look at the enormous tornadoes that have been plaguing the Heartland of our country for the past few years. Filmmaker Steven Quale is an interesting guy, something first learned when we met him on the set of Final Destination 5 a few years back.
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