Barbarian (watch it HERE) author/director Zach Cregger has assembled a robust solid for his mysterious horror undertaking 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 we’re going to have the possibility to see that solid face the horrors Cregger has conjured up when Weapons reaches theatres on August 8th. With that date proper across the nook, a brand new poster for the movie has dropped on-line to warn us that “harmless” issues will be fairly harmful. You’ll be able to test it out on the backside of this text.
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 Magnolia, and the story revolves across the disappearance of elementary college children in a small city. Right here’s the official synopsis: When all however one little one from the identical class mysteriously vanish on the identical night time at precisely the identical time, a group is left questioning who or what’s behind their disappearance.
Garner’s character is Justine Gandy, “a teacher at Maybrook Elementary who shows up to work one morning to find her entire class — except one student — is missing. Security footage taken from neighboring homes shows the absent kids fleeing into the darkness in the dead of night, all running with their arms outstretched in the same rigid formation.” Brolin’s character is Archer Graff, “the father of one of the missing, who finds it suspicious that only children from Justine’s class disappeared.” Ehrenreich “sports a mustache as a local police officer with a very complicated relationship to Mrs. Gandy.”
Cregger produced the movie 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 undertaking so he might star within the Marvel Cinematic Universe reboot of Improbable 4 (which Garner additionally has a job in) as an alternative, and it seems that Reinsve adopted him out the door.
Cregger, who wrote the script with out a top level view and let the story evolve as he went, beforehand informed Entertainment Weekly that the thriller of the lacking kids “goes to propel you thru no less than half of the film, however that’s not the film. The film will fork and alter and reinvent and go in new locations. It doesn’t abandon that query, consider me, however that’s not the entire film in any respect. By the midpoint, we’ve moved on to approach crazier sh*t than that.“
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