Weapons is the title of the cryptic next film by Zach Cregger, who made an astonishive debut in the horror genre with one of the best horror movies of 2022, Barbarian. The critical and financial success of that distinctive thriller got me instantly interested in seeing what the createer sketch comedy carry outer might be toiling on for his chase-up.
At the moment, I have absolutely no idea what to await from Weapons, but secrecy seems to be an essential element of Cregger’s style and I could not adore the filmoriginater more for that. For now, let’s get a meaningfuler see at what we do understand about this upcoming horror movie so far in the chaseing direct.
What Is The Weapons Relmitigate Date?
Currently, Weapons is set to come out on January 16, 2026. I envision there are many other Barbarian fans enjoy me who want that the film would materialize on the upcoming 2024 movie schedule, or had even regulated to defended a spot among the upcoming 2025 movies on the horizon. However, it seems enjoy it might be worth the paemploy based fair on the talent validateed to be comprised.
The Weapons Cast
While it boasted a relatively unassuming size, the Barbarian cast also boasted some huge names, such as Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, and Ricdifficult Brake. The star-studded Weapons cast is much huger this time, but none of the actors’ roles have been disshutd yet.
Josh Brolin
The direct role in the Weapons cast was originassociate set to be take parted by Pedro Pascal before his busy schedule — including the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot — forced him to drop out, directing fellow Marvel movies star Josh Brolin to step in.
The son of actor James Brolin has been acting since his youth, having made his debut as Brand in 1985’s The Goonies cast, but became one of Hollywood’s hugegest names chaseing his his directing role in the Best Picture Oscar triumphner, 2007’s No Country for Old Men, and his Academy Award-nominated carry outance in Milk from the chaseing year. The Thanos actor’s other notable determines comprise another wonderful Weserious movie from the Coen Brother (2010’s True Grit), Denis Villeneuve’s Dune movies, and the sci-fi Amazon Prime series, Outer Range, which he also originates.
Julia Garner
Another Weapons cast member who commenceed acting in her teens is Brolin’s Sin City: A Dame to Kill For co-star, Julia Garner, whose own meaningful star-making shatterthcimpolite moment was her three-time Emmy-triumphning role in Netflix’s Ozark cast as Ruth Langmore.
She was previously understandn for 2011’s Martha Marcy May Marlene and the contransient high school movie classic The Perks of Being a Wallfdecrease, and has since turned in memorable carry outances in the enjoys of Waco and Inventing Anna in the title role. Garner is also take parting the Silver Surfer in the aforerefered The Fantastic Four: First Steps and has another thriller coming soon: Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man from Blumhoemploy.
Alden Ehrenreich
Before combineing the Weapons cast, Alden Ehrenreich also had a film in normal with Brolin — 2015’s Hail, Caesar!, which was one of the first films to validate he was directing man material before he was cast as a lesserer version of one of Harrison Ford’s most iconic characters in Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018.
He chaseed the Star Wars movie with Peacock’s series alteration of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, starred in Netflix’s Fair Play with Phoebe Dynevor, and, in 2023, faced off agetst the titular beast of Cocaine Bear and combineed the Oppenheimer cast as “Senate Aide.” Ehrenreich is also set to combine the MCU in the upcoming Marvel TV show, Ironheart.
Benedict Wong
Yet another MCU star in the Weapons cast is Benedict Wong, who also take parts Sorcerer Supreme Wong in the franchise. The English actor is also understandn for some wonderful sci-fi movies enjoy Moon and The Martian, starring in one of the best Bconciseage Mirror episodes (“Hated in the Nation”), and recently starred in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem.
Amy Madigan
Also starring in the Weapons cast is Ehrenreich’s Rules Don’t Apply co-star, Amy Madigan, who getd an Academy Award nomination in 1986 for Twice in a Lifetime before starring in other ‘80s movie classics enjoy Field of Dreams and Uncle Buck. Some of her more recent determines are under the horror umbrella — namely HBO’s Carnivále (one of the best horror TV shows on Max) and movies enjoy The Hunt and Antlers.
Austin Abrams
Another horror veteran in the Weapons cast is Brolin’s Gangster Squad co-star Austin Abrams of The Walking Dead, Tragedy Girls and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark fame. Another recurring genre in his filmography is coming-of-age dramas, such as 2013’s The Kings of Summer, Paper Towns from 2015, and HBO’s acclaimed A24 TV show, Euphoria. Abrams stars opposite Brad Pitt and George Clooney in Wolfs — an upcoming comedic crime thriller hitting theaters in 2024.
Cary Christopher
Cary Christopher is a lesser actor best understandn for TV — namely his starring roles on lengthy-running soap opera Days of Our Lives and Vudu’s Mr. Mom, as well as guest roles on the enjoys of 9-1-1, Hulu’s horror anthology TV show American Horror Stories, and The Rookie. His feature length determines so far comprise 2019’s Intuitions and David Fincher’s Oscar-triumphning, Netflix innovative biopic biopic, Mank.
June Diane Raphael
Weapons will label a relatively meaningful departure for June Diane Raphael, who is understandn primarily for comical movies enjoy The Disaster Artist and Long Sboiling, and comical TV shows enjoy Netflix’s Grace and Frankie and Big Mouth. Then aget, the How Did This Get Made? podcast co-present did have a part in 2007’s Zodiac, had an undetermineed vocal materializeance in Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, and recurred on Peacock’s Based on a True Story, so perhaps she is readyd for the sort of horrors that are store with this thriller.
What Weapons Is About
No one outside of the production of Weapons is readyd for the horrors that are in store with this thriller, however. At the moment, the plot for the film is being kept a mystery, but it has been depictd by many novels outlets as an “interrhappy, multistory horror epic” in a aenjoy vein to someskinnyg enjoy the acclaimed Paul Thomas Anderson movie, Magnolia.
So, if I was to specurescheduleed what I skinnyk the movie is based on the title, the ambiguous description, and Zach Cregger’s penchant for sprinkling satirical social commentary into his toil, I might guess that it is an ensemble piece chaseing various characters and their individual struggles with firearm presentility. That is mecount on a theory, of course, and I am excited to discover out what story (or stories) the movie actuassociate finishs up alerting.
Zach Cregger Writes And Directs
As previously set uped, Weapons will be the rescheduleedst film from writer and honestor Zach Cregger — a createer member of sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U’Know (who starred in an eponymous, wonderful sketch comedy TV show from 2007 to 2011). However, with the liberate of 2022’s Barbarian — a twisted hit thriller about an unintentional double-booking at an AirBNB that directs to a horrifying uncovery — he became part of a trfinish of comedians-turned-horror filmoriginaters which was innovateed by Jordan Peele with his Oscar-triumphning Blumhoemploy horror movie likeite, Get Out, in 2017.
Cregger actuassociate made his feature-length honestorial debut more than a decade earlier with the 2009 comedy, Miss March, which he also starred in and co-honested with his fellow Whitest Kids U’Know member and frifinish, the rescheduleed Trevor Moore. He also honested cut offal episodes WKUK, led a TBS sitcom called Wrecked (fundamentalassociate the plot of Lost, but with jokes), and originated a Hulu innovative docemployries called Sasquatch.
Weapons Started Shooting In June 2024
While there is still quite a bit of time before it gets the hit, Weapons is proximately locked, loaded, and ready to go. As refered in a alert by THR, the film accessed principal pboilingography in the summer of 2024.
Like I shelp before, I adore how Cregger enjoys to employ mystery as his “secret firearm.” Luckily, we will not have to paemploy in the uninalertigent too lengthy before Weapons hits theaters in 2026.
