Warner Bros. Desires a ‘Weapons’ Prequel About That Character

Weapons hasn’t been in theaters a week, however the studio already needs extra. The Hollywood Reporter says it has talked to writer-director Zach Cregger about doing a little kind of prequel centering on Aunt Gladys, an important, immediately iconic character within the movie performed by Amy Madigan.

Cregger revealed to io9 recently that he had, at one level, written a chapter centered on Gladys, however finally minimize it. “In an earlier draft of the script I had given her her personal chapter,” Cregger instructed io9. “It was just a little little bit of an origin earlier than she got here to city. However I noticed that it was simply giving an excessive amount of away. It’s extra compelling to not know a few of these issues. So I ended up slicing it very early on within the writing course of.”

Properly, now, Warner Bros. is hoping he’ll flip that story right into a full function. No offers are in place but; it’s simply talks, but it surely’s brewing.

After all, Cregger will subsequent make a brand new Resident Evil film, based mostly on the long-lasting online game franchise. It’s an authentic story that he’s very enthusiastic about, however as soon as that’s out, nothing is lined up simply but. If Resident Evil is successful, perhaps Sony backs up the dump truck for a sequel. Or, Warner Bros. knocks into that dump truck with its personal dump truck, hoping to get Cregger again for extra Weapons. Time will inform.

As for the Gladys film, Cregger additionally instructed io9 that a lot of the place the character got here from and what she was about was largely left as much as Madigan. “I type of had an thought of what was happening together with her,” he mentioned. “And I talked with Amy about that considerably, however I additionally wish to respect Amy’s course of. And I need her to take possession, and I need her to type of create her personal mythology. So I gave her a few choices of what I feel is likely to be happening. After which I type of didn’t ask her too many questions on the place she landed with it.”

Perhaps we’ll discover out in a giant means someday sooner or later.

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