{"id":2044273,"date":"2025-09-23T18:13:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2044273"},"modified":"2025-09-23T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:13:15","slug":"as-weapons-witchy-villain-amy-madigan-sparks-oscar-chatter-zach-cregger-confirms-prequel-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/as-weapons-witchy-villain-amy-madigan-sparks-oscar-chatter-zach-cregger-confirms-prequel-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"As \u2018Weapons\u2019 Witchy Villain Amy Madigan Sparks Oscar Chatter, Zach Cregger Confirms Prequel Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">You can\u2019t keep a strong woman down. As the hands-down stand-out queen of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1199107\/\">Zach Cregger<\/a>\u2019s massive horror hit \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26581740\/\">Weapons<\/a>,\u201d star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001496\/\">Amy Madigan<\/a> has been the subject of some serious chatter in recent weeks. Not only does she deliver, ahem, eye-catching thrills and skin-crawling chills as the witchy villain in the genre smash, her performance has also inspired some early awards chatter.<\/p>\n<p>And while film fans and cinephiles alike love to tout genre performances for Oscar love, it tends to be a tough row to hoe with the Academy folks. Still, Madigan is absolutely deserving of awards attention, but all that talk about just how damn good she is in the film might engender something else: a whole prequel, just for her.<\/p>\n<p>While prequel talked kicked up within days of the film\u2019s theatrical release in August, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0087279\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> noting on August 12 that \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0236360\/\">New Line<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t keep a strong woman down. As the hands-down stand-out queen of Zach Cregger\u2019s massive horror hit \u201cWeapons,\u201d star Amy Madigan has been the subject of some serious chatter in recent weeks. Not only does she deliver, ahem, eye-catching thrills and skin-crawling chills as the witchy villain in the genre smash, her performance has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2044274,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2044273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/As-\u2018Weapons-Witchy-Villain-Amy-Madigan-Sparks-Oscar-Chatter-Zach.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044273","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=2044273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2044274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}