Pascal Pascal, who is supposed to shoot the second season of “The Last Of Us,” had to drop out of Zach Cregger’s much-anticipated “Weapons” due to this scheduling conflict. He’s now been replaced by Josh Brolin (“No Country For Old Men,” “Sicario”).
That’s good news for Cregger. I’ll take Brolin over Pascal any day of the week. No contest.
The cast for “Weapons” already included Renate Reinsve, Brian Tyree Henry, Tom Burke, Austin Abrams and June Diane Raphael.
The film was all the buzz in Hollywood during the summer of 2023. Warner Bros and New Line won a bidding war, that involved multiple other studios, and snatched up the rights for an 8-figure sum. They are hoping that Cregger becomes a significant horror name in the coming years, in the same vein as Peele, Aster and Eggers.
We don’t know much about “Weapons,” just that it would revolve around “witchcraft and missing children” and would be told via multi and inter-related storylines ala “Magnolia”. The screenplay is very thick and, as we speak, could result in a 3 hour movie.
Cregger turned a lot of heads in the fall of 2022 when “Barbarian” became a critical and commercial success. All this on a skimp $4.5 million budget. Cregger’s previous work included being in a comedy troupe called The Whitest Kids U Know, so, yeah, nobody really saw this impressive debut coming.
Last I checked, “Weapons” is supposed to start production any day now, and the shoot will go on until April 18th