Julia Garner has a task in Barbarian director Zach Cregger’s Weapons, which she says will not be “a proper horror movie”
Barbarian (watch it HERE) author/director Zach Cregger has assembled a powerful forged for his mysterious horror mission referred to as Weapons, together with Julia Garner (Ozark), Josh Brolin (No Nation for Previous Males), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo), Benedict Wong (Physician Unusual), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie), and Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives)… and through an interview with Collider, Garner stated that we should always not anticipate Weapons to be “a proper horror movie.”
Most particulars about Weapons are shrouded in thriller. It has been stated that it’s “an interrelated, multistory horror epic” that’s tonally within the vein of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Hollywood Reporter provides that the story revolves across the disappearance of excessive schoolers in a small city.
Cregger wrote the Weapons screenplay (which Brolin has stated had “a really brilliant design”) and is directing the movie. He’s additionally producing it with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Footage. At one level, Pedro Pascal of The Final of Us was set to star within the movie with and Renate Reinsve of The Worst Particular person within the World. Pascal needed to go away the mission so he might star within the Marvel Cinematic Universe reboot of Incredible 4 (which Garner additionally has a task in) as an alternative, and it seems that Reinsve adopted him out the door.
New Line Cinema went all-in on a partnership with Cregger and Barbarian’s producers at BoulderLight Footage. New Line got here out the winner in a bidding battle over Weapons, which they’re planning to provide a theatrical launch date on January 16, 2026 (however they may find yourself transferring it into 2025).
New Line Cinema is paying Cregger a sum within the eight determine vary to make this film. After they gained the bidding battle over the rights, New Line’s president and CCO Richard Brener launched the next assertion: “Zach proved with Barbarian that he can create a visceral theatrical expertise for audiences and that he instructions each instrument within the filmmaker toolbelt. We couldn’t be happier that he, Roy [Lee] and Miri [Yoon], and J.D. [Lifshitz]and Rafi [Margules] selected New Line to be the house of his subsequent movie, and hope it’s the first of many to come back.“
When the topic of Weapons got here up, Garner instructed Collider, “It’s not a proper horror movie. It feels very Zach Cregger in that element. There are some comedic elements to it. Barbarian felt like that as well.” It’s not clear what Garner considers to be “a proper horror movie,” however she does have some style expertise, as her credit embody the Rosemary’s Child prequel House 7A and the Wolf Man reboot that reaches theatres this weekend.
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