Weapons is the title of the enigmatic next film by Zach Cregger, who made an amazeive debut in the horror genre with one of the best horror movies of 2022, Barbarian. The critical and financial success of that distinct thriller got me promptly interested in seeing what the createer sketch comedy carry outer might be toiling on for his trail-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 esteem the filmcreater more for that. For now, let’s apshow a proset uper see at what we do understand about this upcoming horror movie so far in the follothriveg direct.
What Is The Weapons Relrelieve 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 eunite on the upcoming 2024 movie schedule, or had even regulated to shielded a spot among the upcoming 2025 movies on the horizon. However, it seems enjoy it might be worth the defer based fair on the talent validateed to be participated.
The Weapons Cast
While it boasted a relatively unpretentious size, the Barbarian cast also boasted some big names, such as Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, and Ricchallenging Brake. The star-studded Weapons cast is much bigr this time, but none of the actors’ roles have been disseald yet.
Josh Brolin
The direct role in the Weapons cast was originpartner set to be carry outed 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 biggest names follothriveg his his directing role in the Best Picture Oscar thrivener, 2007’s No Country for Old Men, and his Academy Award-nominated carry outance in Milk from the follothriveg year. The Thanos actor’s other notable recognizes participate another fantastic Westrict 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 creates.
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 transport inant star-making fracturethcdisesteemful moment was her three-time Emmy-thrivening 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 Wallfdrop, and has since turned in memorable carry outances in the enjoys of Waco and Inventing Anna in the title role. Garner is also carry outing the Silver Surfer in the aforerefered The Fantastic Four: First Steps and has another thriller coming soon: Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man from Blumhouse.
Alden Ehrenreich
Before uniteing 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 show he was directing man material before he was cast as a youthfuler version of one of Harrison Ford’s most iconic characters in Solo: A Star Wars Story in 2018.
He trailed 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 aacquirest the titular beast of Cocaine Bear and uniteed the Oppenheimer cast as “Senate Aide.” Ehrenreich is also set to unite the MCU in the upcoming Marvel TV show, Ironheart.
Benedict Wong
Yet another MCU star in the Weapons cast is Benedict Wong, who also carry outs Sorcerer Supreme Wong in the franchise. The English actor is also understandn for some fantastic sci-fi movies enjoy Moon and The Martian, starring in one of the best Bdeficiency 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 recognizes 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 youthful actor best understandn for TV — namely his starring roles on prolonged-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 recognizes so far participate 2019’s Intuitions and David Fincher’s Oscar-thrivening, Netflix distinct biopic biopic, Mank.
June Diane Raphael
Weapons will tag a relatively transport inant 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 aacquire, the How Did This Get Made? podcast co-structure did have a part in 2007’s Zodiac, had an unrecognizeed vocal euniteance in Hulu’s Nine Perfect Strangers, and recurred on Peacock’s Based on a True Story, so perhaps she is setd for the sort of horrors that are store with this thriller.
What Weapons Is About
No one outside of the production of Weapons is setd 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 portrayd by many recents outlets as an “interrcontent, multistory horror epic” in a aenjoy vein to someskinnyg enjoy the acclaimed Paul Thomas Anderson movie, Magnolia.
So, if I was to specutardy 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 follothriveg various characters and their individual struggles with firearm aggression. That is mecount on a theory, of course, and I am excited to discover out what story (or stories) the movie actupartner ends up increateing.
Zach Cregger Writes And Directs
As previously set uped, Weapons will be the tardyst film from authorr and straightforwardor Zach Cregger — a createer member of sketch comedy troupe The Whitest Kids U’Know (who starred in an eponymous, fantastic sketch comedy TV show from 2007 to 2011). However, with the free of 2022’s Barbarian — a twisted hit thriller about an inadvertent double-booking at an AirBNB that directs to a horrifying discovery — he became part of a trend of comedians-turned-horror filmcreaters which was directed by Jordan Peele with his Oscar-thrivening Blumhouse horror movie preferite, Get Out, in 2017.
Cregger actupartner made his feature-length straightforwardorial debut more than a decade earlier with the 2009 comedy, Miss March, which he also starred in and co-straightforwarded with his fellow Whitest Kids U’Know member and friend, the tardy Trevor Moore. He also straightforwarded disconnectal episodes WKUK, led a TBS sitcom called Wrecked (fundamentalpartner the plot of Lost, but with jokes), and created a Hulu distinct docuseries called Sasquatch.
Weapons Started Shooting In June 2024
While there is still quite a bit of time before it apshows the hit, Weapons is cforfeitly locked, loaded, and ready to go. As refered in a increate by THR, the film accessed principal pboilingography in the summer of 2024.
Like I said before, I esteem how Cregger enjoys to use mystery as his “secret armament.” Luckily, we will not have to defer in the stupid too prolonged before Weapons hits theaters in 2026.
