{"id":58011,"date":"2025-04-28T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58011\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:25:10","slug":"weapons-images-and-character-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/58011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons images and character information"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Barbarian\u00a0(watch it\u00a0HERE<\/a>) writer\/director Zach Cregger has assembled a strong cast for his mysterious horror project called\u00a0Weapons,\u00a0including\u00a0Julia Garner<\/a>\u00a0(Ozark), Josh Brolin\u00a0(No Country for Old Men),\u00a0Alden Ehrenreich (Solo), Benedict Wong\u00a0(Doctor Strange),\u00a0Amy Madigan\u00a0(Antlers),\u00a0Austin Abrams\u00a0(Euphoria), June Diane Raphael (Grace and Frankie), and\u00a0Cary Christopher\u00a0(Days of Our Lives)\u2026 and\u00a0we\u2019re going to have the chance to see that cast face the horrors Cregger has conjured up when\u00a0Weapons\u00a0reaches theatres on\u00a0August 8<\/strong>th.\u00a0With that date swiftly approaching, Cregger has shared a few new images with Entertainment Weekly<\/a> and revealed some character details! The images can be seen at the bottom of this article.<\/p>\n

Most details about\u00a0Weapons\u00a0are shrouded in mystery. It has been said that it\u2019s \u201can interrelated, multistory horror epic\u201d that\u2019s tonally in the vein of Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s\u00a0Magnolia, and the story revolves around the disappearance of elementary school kids in a small town. Cregger, who wrote the script without an outline and let the story evolve as he went, told Entertainment Weekly that the mystery of the missing children \u201cis going to propel you through at least half of the movie, but that is\u00a0not\u00a0the movie. The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places. It doesn\u2019t abandon that question, believe me, but that\u2019s not the whole movie at all. By the midpoint, we\u2019ve moved on to way crazier s\u2014 than that.\u201c<\/p>\n

He shared that Garner\u2019s character is Justine Gandy, \u201ca teacher at Maybrook Elementary who shows up to work one morning to find her entire class \u2014 except one student \u2014 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.\u201d Brolin\u2019s character is Archer Graff, \u201cthe father of one of the missing, who finds it suspicious that only children from Justine\u2019s class disappeared.\u201d Ehrenreich \u201csports a mustache as a local police officer with a very complicated relationship to Mrs. Gandy.\u201d Cregger noted that Magnolia influenced his new movie in a lot of ways, with Ehrenreich\u2019s mustache being a tribute to John C. Reilly\u2019s mustache in Magnolia. Other similarities: \u201cIt\u2019s melancholy, yet it has comedic situations. The sky is regularly cloudy, yet the scenes are colorful. It\u2019s a sprawling ensemble, but the characters are fully developed in their own worlds.\u201d Cregger said, \u201cI just like that kind of unapologetic, \u2018This is an epic.\u2019 I love that movie. I love that kind of bold scale. It gave me permission when I was writing this to shoot for the stars and make it an epic. I wanted a horror epic, and so I tried to do that.\u201d Because he was shooting for the stars, Weapons is bigger, weirder, twistier, and more creatively ambitious than Barbarian.<\/p>\n

Cregger produced the film with Roy Lee and Miri Yoon of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. At one point, Pedro Pascal of\u00a0The Last of Us\u00a0was set to star in the film with and Renate Reinsve of\u00a0The Worst Person in the World.\u00a0Pascal had to leave the project so he could star in the\u00a0Marvel Cinematic Universe reboot of\u00a0Fantastic Four\u00a0(which Garner also has a role in) instead, and it appears that Reinsve followed him out the door.<\/p>\n

New Line Cinema went all-in on a partnership with\u00a0Cregger and\u00a0Barbarian\u2019s producers at BoulderLight Pictures. New Line came out\u00a0the winner<\/a>\u00a0in a bidding war over\u00a0Weapons, paying Cregger a sum in the eight figure range to make this movie. When they won the bidding war over the rights, New Line\u2019s president and CCO Richard Brener released the following statement: \u201cZach proved with\u00a0Barbarian\u00a0that he can create a visceral theatrical experience for audiences and that he commands every tool in the filmmaker toolbelt.\u00a0We couldn\u2019t be happier that he, Roy [Lee] and Miri [Yoon], and J.D. [Lifshitz]and Rafi [Margules] chose New Line to be the home of his next film, and hope it is the first of many to come.\u201c<\/p>\n

Weapons\u00a0has been rated R for strong bloody violence and grisly images, language throughout, some sexual content and drug use. Are you looking forward to the movie? Check out the images below, then let us know by leaving a comment.<\/p>\n

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