The horror thriller marketing campaign Weapons of the screenwriter and director Zach Cregger, New Line Cinema y Warner Bros., started in recent days with the first teaser trailer, while today it is The first eyes to its protagonists.
The movie, described as, “An epic of terror of several interrelated stories about the disappearance of children in a small city,” It is starring Julia Garner (Ozark, Wolf Man, The Fantastic Four: First Steps) Interpreting Justine Gandy, a Maybrook elementary school teacher who appears to work one morning and discovers that his entire class, except a student, has disappearedand by Josh Brolin (Dune: Part Two, Sicario) As Archer Graff, the father of one of the missing, who is suspicious that only the children of Justine's class have disappeared.
Garner and Brolin's official images are available at the end of the note, courtesy of EW.
Children disappear at 2:17 AM, as marked by an image of a clock present in the teaser shared by the study in recent days. The disappearances are captured by images of the security cameras taken from neighboring houses, which show absent children fleeing in the dark of the night, all running with their arms extended in the same rigid formation.
The study also describes the project as:
“A Epic history of multiple and interrelated horror that is in tone is in the Magnolia linethe showcase full of 1999 actors by filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson. “
This is Cregger's most recent feature film, after the feeling of terror Barbarian (2022), who marked his debut as director of a project of the horror genre.
At the moment there is no official synopsis.
The rest of the cast includes Alden honorable (Fair Play, Cocaine Bear), Benedict Wong (3 Body Problem), June Diane Raphael (Abbott Elementary, Long Shot), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), y Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives).
Weapons It is additionally underway a viral marketing campaign that you can visit by clicking Maybrookmsing.com. There you will find security cameras showing the children running at dawn, and the following explanation of what happened:
“A chilling mystery has taken over the small town of Maybrook after 17 children voluntarily abandoned their homes on Wednesday morning. The authorities are baffled by the inexplicable disappearance, which has deeply shocked the community. After the investigation, the images of the main door camera showed the children leaving their homes at 2:17 am on Wednesday without any sign of violence. Since then, little information has been obtained.”
Y as wink to the previous Cregger movie, Barbariana journalistic note entitled is included “They discover an underground prison in a rental house.”
It is unknown if the events of both films will be connected, but at least it is understood that they exist within the same universe.
Ew asked Cregger about a possible connection between them, to which Cregger responded with a “I don't want to say it with certainty.”
Cregger is the screenwriter and director. Also produces the feature film next to Roy Lee of Vartigo, producer of Barbarianand JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules by Boulderlight Pictures. Miri Yoon de Vertigo also produces.
Some sources believe that “If things go well with this project, a goal would be that Cregger finally becomes an important horror voice and supplier of the Warners/New Line movie factory. ”
Weapons with It premieres in cinemas on August 8, 2025, advancing its original premiere scheduled for January 2026.
First glances:
Source: https://cine3.com/primeros-vistazos-julia-garner-josh-brolin-weapons/
