Major Twisters Detail Teases What Happened To Jo amp Bill After The 1996 Original

Twisters leaves out the stars of the original 1996 movie, but one detail teases what happened to Helen Hunt's Jo and Bill Paxton's Bill after Twister. The sequel movie, released in 2024, picks up decades after the events of the first film and recenters the story around a new group of characters. Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt not returning for Twisters, albeit for very different reasons, means that the movie left significant questions about Jo and Bill's fate after they survived an F5 tornado and finally got the Dorothy technology to work.

While this is mostly a standalone sequel to the original movie, there are still plenty of Twisters Easter eggs and references to the original for audiences to catch. One of the most direct connections comes in the earliest portions of the film. Kate's team has Dorothy V in Twisters as they test her experimental formula to tame tornadoes. Seeing the familiar tornado machine seems like just a fun callback to the original movie at first. However, its presence is actually a major clue to Jo and Bill's life after Twister.