He found it in "Twister," a movie about professional storm chasers who increasingly encounter more dangerous tornadoes over the course of the film. De Bont, from the very beginning, knew that he ...

"He wanted theater actors, and not movie stars, which I'm sure was not easy for him to convince people." One such actor was the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman. He played a storm-chaser named Dusty ...