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Another horror movie taking the world by storm is Zach Cregger’s Weapons, which follows a town that’s shaken to its core when 17 kids go missing in the middle of the night. Weapons is making Marvel Studios look foolish for releasing The Fantastic Four: First Steps a few weeks before it, but before Kevin Feige and Co. could even think of scooping Cregger up to ensure he isn’t a problem again, the director pledged his allegiance to DC. Even if Cregger gets a call from James Gunn, though, it won’t be his first time working with DC characters.
Zach Cregger Played Green Lantern in a DC Fan Film
In the early 2010s, there was a stigma around Superman, with many claiming that he wasn’t an interesting enough character. Max Landis, writer of Chronicle and Bright, thought the infamous ’90s comic storyline “The Death of Superman” didn’t do the hero any favors and wanted to explore what went wrong with it. He sat down in front of a camera and delivered a passionate monologue about the story in The Death and Return of Superman, but he didn’t want that to be the end of it. Accompanying Landis’s words were sketches that played out his humorous account of the comic book’s events.
Plenty of familiar faces joined in on the fun, including Mandy Moore, Elijah Wood, Ron Howard, Simon Pegg, and Elden Henson, best known for playing Foggy Nelson on Daredevil. However, hiding among the crowd was a young filmmaker named Zach Cregger, who had very few credits to his name. He played a distraught version of Hal Jordan, who showed up on Earth to find his home destroyed. Cregger’s hero wiped out the rest of the Green Lanterns before declaring himself a villain, just like his comic book counterpart did. While Hal is already spoken for in Gunn’s DC Universe, Cregger is still ready to give it another go all these years later.
