Zach Cregger is ready to work his magic with the prequel to Weapons that will focus on breakout character Gladys.
During Collider’s Directors on Directing panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday, the filmmaker shared a status update on the planned feature follow-up to his 2025 horror hit that won Amy Madigan the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as Aunt Gladys. The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that Cregger and Zach Shields are penning the script for the project that is in development at New Line Cinema with the working title Gladys.
“First of all, I’m really excited about the Gladys movie, and I loved working with Amy,” Cregger told the crowd. “I loved that character. For the movie Weapons, it really made a lot of sense not to dive into her backstory because the device of Weapons was to keep her very mysterious.”
He added, “However, there’s an amazing story to be told about where Gladys comes from and how she became what we know her as. It’s got a lot of twists and turns and mysteries and crazy things, like Weapons does. I think it’s going to be great. The script is in progress now, but we’re taking that super seriously, and it’s moving in the right direction. So yeah, it’s being written, is the short answer.”
Centering on a group of children who go missing in the middle of the night, Weapons hit theaters last August from Warner Bros. and collected $270 million at the global box office. In addition to Madigan, the cast included Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams and Benedict Wong.
At Thursday’s panel, Cregger screened the latest trailer and additional exclusive footage from his forthcoming video game adaptation Resident Evil, which Sony releases in September. Cregger noted that his next feature will be The Flood, a sci-fi film that he wrote for New Line.
Also participating in the panel were Mayday directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, who teased the progress on the new Star Trek feature that the pair are writing and directing.
“It won’t be the characters you’ve seen previously,” Goldstein said from the stage. “It will be a little further into the future than what you’ve seen.”
