Barbariandirector Zach Cregger’s upcoming film,Weapons, just got anotherterrifying sneak peekthat unveils the star-studded main cast that will be tasked with figuring out why 17 kids fled their homes during the night, never to be seen again. Judging by the new images, the “horror epic” will be another that will give fans of Cregger’s breakout title another twist-filled narrative that is more than it initially appears.
New images fromWeaponshave been released online courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. Several stills focus on the kids leaving their homes in the middle of the night, while two reveal Julia Garner as Justine Gandy, a teacher at Maybrook Elementary, and Josh Brolin as Archer Graff, the father of one of the missing children. The kids that go missing all attend Justine’s class, and as seen in the new images, those who flee seem to be possessed as they run in the same creepy fashion. The inciting incident shapes much ofWeapons, but as Cregger teases, “the movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places.” You can check out the images below.
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Warner Bros. has been using viral marketing tactics to promoteWeapons, including releasingseveral teasersover the past month showing the kids running away from their homes via security footage. In fact, a new website to promote information about the missing children seemingly confirms the film takes place in the same universe asBarbarian. Now, it’s unclear if the central mystery inWeaponshas anything to do with the 2022 film, but Cregger’s horror work seems to share some striking qualities. LikeBarbarian, the narrative behind the upcoming movie unravels in unforeseen ways.
“That mystery is going to propel you through at least half of the movie, but that isnotthe movie. The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places. It doesn’t abandon that question, believe me, but that’s not the whole movie at all. By the midpoint, we’ve moved on to way crazier s— than that.”
‘Weapons’ Was Written the Same Way as ‘Barbarian’
Barbarian, which begins with a young woman renting an Airbnb that turns out to be double-booked, slowly but surely morphs intoa genre-bending horror tale. It’s unpredictable and bolstered by bold swings, a direct result of how Zach Cregger wrote the screenplay without an outline. He took a similar approach to creatingWeapons, not knowing how the film was going to end when he began writing the script based on the basic premise of the missing school children.
“I didn’t have an outline. I didn’t know what it was about. It was just like, let the movie show itself to me. I want to watch the movie as I’m writing it.”
However, unlikeBarbarian, Cregger specifically madeWeaponsto be a “horror epic” that has an entirely different scale. In other words, the 2022 box office hit walked soWeaponscould run.
‘This is an epic. I love that movie. I love that kind of bold scale. It gave me permission when I was writing this to shoot for the stars and make it an epic. I wanted a horror epic, and so I tried to do that.
It is more ambitious in almost every way. I don’t just mean in terms of the budget, but I just mean creatively. The story is weirder and it’s twistier and it’s bigger. I have way more actors to fit into this thing. The set pieces are definitely bigger. It’s just a bigger, weirder movie thanBarbarianis."
Source:Entertainment Weekly
