'It's Being Written, Is the Short Answer' — Zach Cregger Gives an Update on the Aunt Gladys Prequel | Comic Con 2026

Weapons and upcoming Resident Evil manager Zach Cregger gave an update connected the presumption of his Aunt Gladys prequel movie astatine San Diego Comic-Con connected Thursday afternoon.

"First of all, I'm truly excited astir the Gladys movie. I loved moving with Amy [Madigan], I emotion that character," Cregger said. "For the movie Weapons, it truly made a batch of consciousness not to dive into her backstory due to the fact that the instrumentality of Weapons was to support her precise opaque and precise mysterious. However, I deliberation there's an astonishing communicative to beryllium told astir wherever Gladys comes from and however she became what we cognize her as. It's got a batch of twists and turns and mysteries and brainsick things, benignant of similar Weapons does, and I deliberation it's gonna beryllium great. The publication is successful process present and we're taking it precise earnestly and it's moving successful the close direction. It's being written, is the abbreviated answer."

An appetite for an Aunt Gladys prequel movie gained traction hardly a week aft Weapons archetypal came retired successful August 2025. The writer and manager confirmed successful September 2025 that the improvement talks with Warner Bros., which distributed Weapons, were "not bullshit." In April 2026 — not agelong aft Madigan won Best Supporting Actress for her show arsenic Gladys astatine the Oscars — the trades reported that Zach Shields (Godzilla: King of the Monsters), would beryllium joining Cregger arsenic co-writer connected the script. The moving rubric is currently, simply, Gladys.

Despite the progressive enactment connected the Weapons prequel, Cregger said that it volition not beryllium his next film — that volition beryllium sci-fi thriller The Flood, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which already has a merchandise day slated for August 11, 2028. Gladys volition travel aft that. Meanwhile, he's besides producing a Siren Head movie successful the creepypasta fearfulness space.

The Resident Evil manager shared the sheet signifier with directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley — who shared directing duties connected Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Game Night, and are helming Apple TV's upcoming Mayday, starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branaugh.

Speaking of Resident Evil, the manager talked astir his all-out attack successful telling a "straightforward" story. "I wanted to spot if I could enactment my ft each the mode down connected the state pedal and not fto up until the extremity of the movie," helium said. "That was the challenge: Can I conscionable beryllium wholly unrelenting? You guys volition archer maine if that's the case."

Cregger volition beryllium passing done IGN's workplace astatine Comic-Con, on with Resident Evil prima Austin Abrams, to speech astir the upcoming film, which premieres September 18. Fans were stoked to larn a fewer weeks agone that the runtime would hardly ace 90 minutes.

Leanne Butkovic (she/they) is an Editorial Project Manager astatine IGN, wherever they've besides written astir TV, movies, and games.