In the spring and summer of 2023, principal photography on the blockbuster movie “Twisters” zipped from Oklahoma City and El Reno to Fairview and Okarche to Burbank and Pawhuska.
Like the 1996 hit “Twister” before it, the standalone sequel “Twisters” took its production team all over the state , as filming also took place in Chickasha, Midwest City, Spencer, Kingfisher, Calumet, Hinton and Kremlin.
“There’s really no skyscapes or landscapes quite like Oklahoma. … My first time here was January of 2023. So, I had no idea what to expect, but we were embraced right away. The communities were wonderful, the locals were wonderful,” executive producer Ashley Jay Sandberg said during the OKC premiere of “Twisters” last month at Harkins Bricktown 16.
” Oklahoma is a character in our film, and there’s such a love for it. And we really wanted it to honor the state and the landscape and the people.”
But not every Sooner State town depicted in “Twisters” is playing itself in the movie: One of the three Sooner State towns to get torn up by tornadoes in the legacy sequel, Crystal Springs is a real place outside McAlester. But those scenes of devastation were actually filmed in Chickasha , which had its Hollywood close-up delayed for months due to last year’s actors strike .