Zach Cregger, celebrated director of the 2022 horror hit Barbarian, has thrown his hat into the ring for next year’s big score with Weapons. This new horror-thriller has an absolutely terrific ensemble cast. It features incredible performances from Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Set in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Maybrook, the film centers around a mysterious event where 17 children awaken from their homes and venture into the night at precisely 2:17 a.m.
Cregger’s process in writing Weapons was not without its issues. At first, he was left flailing for a proper structure or guiding theme for the film. “I didn’t have an outline. I didn’t know what it was about,” he admitted. But instead, he welcomed this unknown, letting the story unfold naturally as he continued writing. “It was just like, let the movie show itself to me. I want to watch the movie as I’m writing it,” he explained.
The cast of “Weapons” is turning heads! Sicario’s Josh Brolin joins the cast as the fate-seeking father Archer Graff, looking for one of the lost children. Starring is Alden Ehrenreich as a local police officer who —mustache included—has a “very complicated relationship” with Mrs. Gandy. Though the cast might be the biggest surprise of all, Cregger teases more surprises. As he noted, a surprising few names are missing from the official announcement. This ingenuity evokes interest about the project.
Weapons in fact sounds like an even bigger and more ambitious project than Cregger’s breakout feature, Barbarian. The central missing children mystery sets everything in motion. Luckily, for Cregger at least, this is not the movie’s top priority. “The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places,” he said. He assured fans that although the children’s disappearance is significant, “by the midpoint, we’ve moved on to way crazier s
