When someone else comes as scary as Aunt Gladys between now and Halloween, they get ready for a sea of adults who carry costumes that are interrupted by bright orange wigs. Lips were accidentally smeared with lipstick and enormous glasses. Aunt Gladys, played by Amy Madigan, is one of the many memorable characters in the filmmaker Zach Creggers R-rated WeaponsAn original horror film that conquers the multiplex in the storm, similar to Jordan Peele's Exit Hit did in 2017. And as well as Exit became a rare horror title to land several upper Oscar noms, so also WeaponsWith Madigan looks like a candidate.
However, there is another reason to look for aunt Gladys. Tell several sources The Hollywood reporter These Warner Bros. and new line, home of WeaponsTalk to Cregger that a prequel researches the history of origin of the strange aunt, which suddenly arrives in the city.
One of Weapons'Conceits is his chapter structure, which focuses on certain characters, and sources say that Cregger had actually focused a chapter on Gladys and some of her background history. Ultimately, he pulled this section from the script by length. With the wild success of the film, this lost chapter would be expanded into a story in full length. Sources say that no business has been done, and there are no timeline.
This is partly because resident Evil Restart for Columbia Pictures, for which he is to receive payday at $ 20 million, an astonishing figure for a filmmaker who only works on his third feature (without counting co-director Little Little Seep 2011 feature The civil war against drugsWhat he did far before he became a-list director, or 2009 from 2009 Miss March for search light.) Devilish is to be opened in the cinemas on September 18, 2026.
The question of many lips is: Where will Cregger go next? If he was already a filmmaker on the advance, thanks to the success of his debut, 2022, BarbarPresent Weapons Carte Blanche and a pen gave him to write his own ticket (of course with the help of his CaA and artists' first representatives).
The Weapons Prequel is just one of his options. There are HandlongAn original story that would be for Warner Bros. that now has to seriously consider the DC studios division in DC. And there is floodA science fiction script that he has already written.
Regardless of which film it is, there is a better chance as an average chance that it will be with Warners. The Co-Bo-Bo-Boad Michael de Luca was the first Exec in the city to end reading reading Weapons The script and make an offer after Cregger and producer Roy Lee triggered it at 8 a.m. in January 2023 in a Maverick change by a bidding war.
Said Cregger Th. This de Luca called at 9:30 a.m. to say that he wanted to make the film. Hours later Warner and his genre division New Line won the battle for others, including peeles Monkeypaw productions, and agreed to pay 38 million US dollars for the project. De Luca also tried to land the rights to Cregger resident EvilSince then he has been trying to lose him to Sony, and since then he had been trying to bring him back to the studio.
During the 8th to 10th weekend in August, Weapons Opened 43 million US dollars domestically, more than 10 million US dollars before expectations and a large sum for an original title in the middle of the general horror desolation at the box office. This week started with the start Weapons There is no set up at the domestic box office, the best August Monday, which, however, has not been adjusted. The film will leave a domestic balance of 48 million US dollars and 83 million US dollars worldwide by Monday.
With regard to the next steps, Cregger played it shyly in the days before the film was opened. “Everything in this business changes at a cent on the other side of resident EvilMaybe I can't do anything, ”he said in one Th. Interview. “You just never know.