The screenwriter and director Zach Creggerreturn this year with its new project, the original horror thriller Weaponsits first from the successful launch of the 2022 horror hit, Barbarian.
Cregger's new feature film, marks a second collaboration with the studies New Line Cinema y Warner Bros. After associating in the aforementioned Barbarianwhich marked the filmmaker's debut in the horror genre.
Cregger's proposal, entitled in our market, The time of disappearanceis described as “An epic of terror of several interrelated stories about the disappearance of children in a small city.”
Julia Garner (Ozark, Wolf Man, The Fantastic Four: First Steps) Head the story playing Justine Gandy, a Maybrook elementary school teacher who appears to work one morning and discovers that his entire class, except a student, has disappeared. Josh Brolin (Dune: Part Two, Sicario) is Archer Graff, the father of one of the missing, who is suspicious that only the children of Justine's class have disappeared.
Los Children disappear at 2:17 am. 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.
Empire Magazine medium shared a New official imagefocused on one of these children. The look is available at the end of the note.
On WeaponsCregger told the environment:
“It's a fun movie. It is fun, it is afraid, it is attractive. It is not a heavy, gloomy and melancholic film. And yet The story he tells is really deranged. [Es una obra] creatively ambitious, [más grande que] Barbarian.”
“Barbarian It was an exploration of social issues; It was my gaze to the world that surrounded me. This is more an exploration of my own personal misery, due to lack of a better word. Weapons It is my introspection and my work in myself.”
Official synopsis:
“When all children of the same class, except one, mysteriously disappear the same night and exactly at the same time, a community wonders who or what is behind their disappearance.”
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 also has 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 bewildered 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.
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.
The project is also called “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. “
Weapons with It premieres in cinemas on August 8, 2025.
Source: https://cine3.com/nuevo-vistazo-al-thriller-de-terror-weapons-de-zach-cregger/
