WB wants a 'Weapons' prequel focusing on Aunt Gladys

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Yet there’s another reason to be on the lookout for Aunt Gladys. Multiple sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Warner Bros. and New Line, home of Weapons, are already talking with Cregger about making a prequel exploring the origin story of the strange aunt who suddenly arrives in town.

One of Weapons’ conceits is its chapter structure centering on particular characters, and sources say that Cregger actually had a chapter focused on Gladys and some of her backstory. He ultimately pulled that section from the script for length purposes. Now with the movie’s wild success, that lost chapter would be expanded into a full-length story. Sources say no deals have been made, nor is there any timeline.

That’s partly because Cregger is already in prep on his next feature — he wasn’t even in town for the opening of Weapons, as he was in Prague in pre-production on his Resident Evil reboot for Columbia Pictures, for which he is to receive at $20 million payday, an astounding figure for a filmmaker working on only his third feature (not counting co-directing little seen 2011 feature The Civil War on Drugs, which he made far before becoming an A-list director, or 2009’s Miss March for Searchlight.) Evil is scheduled to open in theaters on Sept. 18, 2026.

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The question on many lips is: Where will Cregger go next? If he was already a filmmaker on the rise thanks to the out- of-nowhere success of his 2022 debut, Barbarian, Weapons has given him carte blanche and a pen to write his own ticket (with the help of his CAA and Artists First reps, of course).

The Weapons prequel is only one of his options. There is Henchman, an original story that would be for Warner Bros. that now its DC Studios division must seriously consider. And there’s Flood, a sci-fi script that he’s already written.

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