Warner Bros. Wants Zach Cregger To Make a Weapons Prequel Starring Aunt Gladys

Once again, I ask: Did you spot Weapons this past weekend? Did you drawback a post-work screening to temper the weekday blues Monday oregon Tuesday? If you did, you decidedly met Aunt Gladys, 1 of the astir noteworthy characters of the caller ensemble fearfulness movie by Barbarian’s Zach Cregger — and if you met her, you’d recognize wherefore the powers that beryllium present privation a prequel that focuses connected her story.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, some Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema — the erstwhile of which owns the second — person started discussions with Cregger astir a prequel movie that volition bring audiences each the mode backmost and exposure the character’s root story.

The outlet besides claims that Cregger primitively had a full section of the movie (which is breached down connected the full into chapters representing each of the main characters) for Amy Madigan's Gladys, which went into a spot of her backstory.

Alas, Gladys' backstory ended up connected the cutting country floor, arsenic the movie's publication had already go excessively lengthy. Though, to beryllium fair, that does marque consciousness arsenic the finished merchandise clocks successful astatine implicit 2 hours.

That omission seems to beryllium moving successful Cregger’s favor, arsenic the movie already appears to beryllium a large hit, some astatine the container bureau and successful the zeitgeist. However, THR noted that nary woody has officially been made for a 2nd movie conscionable yet — and that’s due to the fact that Cregger is already hard astatine enactment connected his 3rd feature: his Resident Evil reboot starring Weapons MVP Austin Abrams.

Cregger’s adjacent movie is acceptable to deed theaters connected September 18, 2026 — but aft that, his adjacent determination is anyone’s guess. He could spell the Weapons prequel route, helium could marque bully connected the archetypal DC publication helium wrote featuring Joker and Harley Quinn called Henchman, oregon helium could adjacent instrumentality up different implicit archetypal thought similar Flood, a sci-fi publication he’s already finished.

"Writer-director Zach Cregger blends unbearable hostility and acheronian wit erstwhile much successful Weapons, a fearfulness blockbuster that’s little of a blunt-force barbarian and much of a sharp-shooting assassin," IGN wrote successful our Weapons review, scoring it 9/10.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.