New Line is in early talks for a prequel to Weapons, its buzzy hit horror film from writer-director Zach Cregger, which opened over the weekend, Deadline has confirmed.<\/p>\n
Plot details are under wraps, and it\u2019s unclear in what capacity Cregger would participate in the project, as it\u2019s very early days here, and sources indicated that he has two films lined up to take on next. He\u2019s currently prepping his Resident Evil film for Sony, and it\u2019s expected that he\u2019ll then look to take on an original called Flood, we\u2019re told.<\/p>\n
More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Following up the 2022 horror film Barbarian that put him on the map, Creggers\u2019 horror mystery Weapons tells the story of 17 third-graders who vanish from their homes at exactly 2:17 a.m., and the confusion and fear resulting from their disappearances in the town of\u00a0Maybrook,\u00a0Pennsylvania. Julia Garner stars as Justine Gandy, the third-grade teacher who loses her class, with Josh Brolin as a father whose child is among the missing, and Alden Ehrenreich as a local cop. Others in the cast include Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, and Cary Christopher.<\/p>\n Released by Warner Bros on August 8, the film has been both a critical and commercial success, topping the box office in its opening weekend with approximately $42.5 million domestically. As of today, it\u2019s grossed over $81 million worldwide.<\/p>\n Cregger\u2019s adaptation of the video game Resident Evil is slated for release on September 18.<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Line is in early talks for a prequel to Weapons, its buzzy hit horror film from writer-director Zach Cregger, which opened over the weekend, Deadline has confirmed. Plot details are under wraps, and it\u2019s unclear in what capacity Cregger would participate in the project, as it\u2019s very early days here, and sources indicated that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1957112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[329323,343248,339106],"class_list":["post-1957111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-horror-film","tag-resident-evil-film","tag-zach-cregger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/New-Line-In-Early-Talks-For-\u2018Weapons-Prequel.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}