First trailer for 'Twisters' debuts during the Super Bowl: Watch

As anticipated, the first trailer for the "Twisters," the latest high-profile movie to be filmed in Oklahoma, debuted during Super Bowl LVIII, and it immediately plunged audiences into the stormy action.

From a little league baseball game to a rodeo and from an urban area to country backroads, convincingly realistic tornadoes wreak havoc in our 2-minute first look at the eagerly awaited new movie.

Described as a "new chapter" following the 1996 blockbuster "Twister," which also was filmed in Oklahoma, "Twisters" is scheduled to hit theaters on July 19 as a summer tentpole release for Universal Pictures.

Is 'Twisters' a sequel, a reboot or a remake?

"Twisters" has been described as a "new chapter", rather than a sequel, to the 1996 hit "Twister," which followed Helen Hunt, the late Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as fictional storm chasers tracking a series of powerful tornadoes.

Mark L. Smith, whose credits include the Oscar-winning 2015 film "The Revenant," starring Leonardo DiCaprio, wrote the script for "Twisters."

"It’s definitely not a reboot. We’re not trying to recreate the story from the first one. It’s a completely original story. There are no characters from the original movie back, so it’s not really a continuation. It’s just its own standalone story in the modern-day," "Twisters" star Glenn Powell ("Top Gun: Maverick") said in a December interview with Vogue.

The first trailer reveals that Powell is playing a hot-shot storm chaser named Tyler Owens, who has dubbed himself "Tornado Wrangler." From the looks of the trailer, he will be teaming up with another group of storm chasers, played by Golden Globe nominees Daisy Edgar-Jones ("Under the Banner of Heaven") and Anthony Ramos ("In the Heights"), and fearlessly plunging into the swirling storms.

'Twisters' cast: Stars and filmmakers on the project

From the looks of the first "Twisters" trailer, Austin native Powell will be leaning into his Texas roots on the project. Powell portrayed astronaut John Glenn in 2015's "Hidden Figures," broke out as the cocky pilot Hangman in 2022's "Top Gun: Maverick" and made the leap to leading man with last year's sleeper hit romantic comedy "Anyone But You."

Edgar-Jones, perhaps best known for her starring turn in the 2022 murder mystery "Where the Crawdads Sing," is starring opposite Powell in "Twisters." Last June, Edgar-Jones shared on Instagram footage of severe weather the production encountered in Oklahoma.

Ramos is co-starring in the long-awaited action vehicle. An original Broadway cast member of "Hamilton," Ramos was spotted in Oklahoma City attending a matinee of Lyric' Theatre's "A Christmas Carol" last December amid filming on "Twisters."

The "Twisters" cast also includes Brandon Perea ("Nope"), Daryl McCormack ("Good Luck to You, Leo Grande"), Maura Tierney ("The Affair"), Harry Hadden-Paton ("Downton Abbey"), Sasha Lane ("American Honey"), Kiernan Shipka ("Mad Men"), Nik Dodani ("Atypical"), David Corenswet ("Pearl"), Tunde Adebimpe ("Spider-Man: Homecoming") and Katy O’Brian ("The Mandalorian"), according to Deadline.

Two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung is the director of "Twisters," but before he touched down in the Sooner State on his tornado-chasing blockbuster, he'd already made one movie in Oklahoma: He filmed his Academy Award-winning semi-autobiographical immigrant drama "Minari" in the Tulsa area in 2019.

Frank Marshall, known for famed franchises like the "Jurassic Park" and Bourne movies, is producing "Twisters" via his banner, Kennedy/Marshall Co. Marshall’s wife, Kathleen Kennedy, who is now president of Lucasfilm, was a lead producer on the original "Twister." Marshall has ties to Oklahoma through the charity work he has done for many years in the Sooner State.

Where was 'Twisters' filmed? Oklahoma locations

With an estimated budget of $200 million, principal photography on "Twisters" got underway in Oklahoma City in May 2023.

Along with OKC, "Twisters" filmed in and around Chickasha, El Reno, Okarche and Cashion last spring and summer, until production was suspended in July due to the Screen Actors Guild strike.

Production resumed in Oklahoma last November following the conclusion of the SAG strike, with filming in Midwest City, Chickasha and Yukon. The project wrapped filming in December, Powell told Vogue.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: 'Twisters' trailer drops: Cast, filming locations of Oklahoma blockbuster