{"id":306579,"date":"2025-10-15T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306579\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:26:10","slug":"zach-cregger-wants-weapons-gladys-prequel-to-stand-on-its-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306579\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger Wants &#8216;Weapons&#8217; Gladys Prequel To &#8220;Stand On Its Own&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWith one of the biggest horror movies of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/zach-cregger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zach Cregger<\/a> wants his upcoming prequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/weapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weapons<\/a> to be its own beast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe writer\/director recently teased the spin-off about the mysterious Aunt Gladys (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/amy-madigan\/\">Amy Madigan<\/a>), which he confirmed last month <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/weapons-zach-cregger-director-confirms-aunt-gladys-prequel-1236553119\/\">is in development<\/a>, admitting he\u2019s considered whether unpacking the villain\u2019s origin story would ruin the movie\u2019s mystique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s crossed my mind,\u201d Cregger told <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/weapons-explained-zach-cregger-interview\/\">TheWrap<\/a> after Gladys was originally set for her own chapter in the first film. \u201cBut I think that the Gladys story is such an interesting story that I think it\u2019s going to feel very separate and stand on its own two feet, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to diminish Weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Weapons, all but one child in Justine Gandy\u2019s (Julia Garner) third-grade class goes missing when they each mysteriously wake up and run off into the night at exactly 2:17am. The truth of what happened to the kids unravels through the perspectives of multiple characters, portrayed by Madigan, Josh Brolin, Austin Abrams, Cary Cristopher and Benedict Wong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFollowing the overwhelming fan response to Aunt Gladys, Cregger added, \u201cThe thrill of my life to see Amy and what\u2019s been going on with all of this has been so great. I can only hope that there\u2019s a lot of Halloween Gladyses out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Weapons-.jpg\" alt=\"Aunt Gladys in 'Weapons'\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"683\" width=\"1024\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tAmy Madigan as Aunt Gladys in \u2018Weapons\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWarner Bros.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter Deadline confirmed in August that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/new-line\/\">New Line<\/a> is <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/weapons-prequel-development-new-line-1236485015\/\">in early talks for a prequel<\/a> to Weapons, Cregger said he \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/09\/weapons-zach-cregger-director-confirms-aunt-gladys-prequel-1236553119\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was ready<\/a>\u201d for the origin story. \u201cI had it kind of in my pocket before the movie came out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With one of the biggest horror movies of the year, Zach Cregger wants his upcoming prequel to Weapons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[87621,171,53,67,132,68,9826,9827],"class_list":{"0":"post-306579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-amy-madigan","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us","14":"tag-weapons","15":"tag-zach-cregger"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115380773840736332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}