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Zach Cregger’s Weapons, one of this year’s most hotly-anticipated horrors, is only a few months out from its August 8 release date, but still remains shrouded in mystery – even with new pics dropping from Entertainment Weekly today.
Starring Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan, and June Diane Raphael (plus, as Cregger teases “a couple missing names” from the cast) Weapons has previously been described as a “multi-story horror epic” following the fallout of a group of kids who mysteriously disappear overnight at exactly 2:17am.
However – speaking with EW today, Cregger is keen to stress that the missing kids are but the tip of the iceberg, much like how Barbarian wasn’t actually about an ominous Bill Skarsgård, despite the trailers:
“That mystery is going to propel you through at least half of the movie, but that is not the movie […] The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places. It doesn’t abandon that question, believe me, but that’s not the whole movie at all. By the midpoint, we’ve moved on to way crazier s— than that.”
We can believe it – first reactions to Weapons footage shown at CinemaCon earlier this year teased a movie that’s “batshit insane” and “deeply unsettling”.
While Warner Bros. has launched a website suggesting that Weapons and Barbarian are set in the same universe and potentially connected, Cregger is less assertive about this fact, saying “I don’t want to definitively say any way or the other.”
He adds:
“It is more ambitious in almost every way. I don’t just mean in terms of the budget, but I just mean creatively […] The story is weirder and it’s twistier and it’s bigger. I have way more actors to fit into this thing. The set pieces are definitely bigger. It’s just a bigger, weirder movie than Barbarian is.”
Frankly, we’re more than happy to remain in the dark about Weapons for as long as we can – if Longlegs proved anything, it’s that this is a marketing strategy that horror fans are hungry for.
Head over to Entertainment Weekly for the full interview with Cregger and check out EW’s images below:
