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Very little is known about Weapons at this point. The movie has been described as a “horror epic” and compared to Magnolia, Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 movie that featured a star-studded cast, all appearing in interrelated stories that orbit one another and occasionally interact.
Cregger scored himself an eight-figure sum from New Line to write and direct the new project, a number that is more than twice Barbarian‘s $4.5-million budget. It seems likely the label behind It and The Conjuring is looking for a franchise — or at least a tentpole — but given Cregger’s reluctance to make a Barbarian sequel, it’s also entirely possible New Line is just trying to form a relationship with the filmmaker himself.
“Zach doesn’t want to do a sequel. He’s very much, it’s stand-alone, it was really good, and I think sometimes with certain things, that’s the best way to go,” Barbarian star Georgina Campbell told ComicBook.com last year. “He is the creator, the writer, director, so he knows. That’s his thing, he doesn’t want to expand upon it, so just leave it alone.”
In addition to Brolin, the cast would include Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets), Jack Quaid (The Boys, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), Lukas Cage (The White Lotus, You), Megan Suri (Never Have I Ever, Poker Face), and Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows, Blue Beetle).
Cregger will serve as producer, along with Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures, according to THR, who first broke the casting news. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
Cregger also told ComicBook.com back in 2022 that he had an idea for a DC movie set in Gotham City, but he had not yet pitched it to anyone at Warner Bros.
