A quite common thing in Hollywood is that there are A war of Pujas for getting very promising titles. It is sometimes when the film is already made and has caused a sensation at a festival, but other times it happens in a much earlier phase of the project. That was precisely what happened in the case of ‘Weapons’one of the great horror film premieres of what remains of 2025.
You have to go back until February 2023 to discover thanks to an article by Deadline in which it was detailed that the new work of Zach Creggerwho had left very good impressions with his prima opera ‘Barbarian’, had caused a war of offers that had finally led to him New Line Buy the project by 38 million dollars. All this with nothing shot and only with the endorsement of the script signed by Cregger himself.
Jordan Peele also loved her
‘Weapons’ tells the story of how all the students of the same class, except one, mysteriously disappear the same night at 2 hours and 17 minutes in the morning. The small city of Maybrook enters into a state of shock trying to find an explanation to what has happened.
Among those interested in the film was also universal so that Jordan Peele He exercised as a producer through his Monkeypaw company. However, the study finally brought itself back and there are several rumors about what happened.
One of them was that Universal received the possibility of staying with the film matched New Line’s offer, but both the study and Pele considered it too risk. However, there is a factor that plays against that idea, and that is that the author of ‘Let me out’ or ‘Nope’ changed agents very shortly after what happenedcoinciding that one of them is also Cregger agent. It is not ruled out at all that is due to a tremendous anger by Peele.
Cast and other details
The film received a hard blow shortly after what happened, since in May 2023 the signing of Pedro Pascal To lead the cast, but months later he had to leave ‘Weapons’ for the commitment he had reached with Marvel. It was then that Cregger noticed Josh Brolinwho has ended up leading the cast together with Julia Garnercuriously it also comes out in ‘the fantastic 4: first steps’ but did not have the same problem as Pascal, y Alden honorable.
Everything evolved without major setbacks since then for a film with which Cregger won a historical agreement, since 10 of those 38 million are for him. Another unusual achievement is that they accepted that he had Right to final assemblywhich gave him great freedom to make the film to his liking. That does not guarantee that it will be a genius, but it will have personality.
For now, the last stop has been the recent launch of the ‘Weapons’ trailer that you can see a little higher, in which it has ended up being clear that we are facing a movie that must be followed very closely. Now all we have left is to wait until its cinemas next August 8because Cregger also demanded by contract that first on the big screen.
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