As expected following yesterday’s first look images from Zach Cregger’s Weapons, New Line Cinema has dropped the first trailer. Cregger’s anticipated follow-up to Barbarian is a film that he’s promised “is more ambitious in almost every way. I don’t just mean in terms of the budget, but I just mean creatively.” I think that comes through in this footage, which is creepy as Hell.
Weapons is an ever-evolving story that kicks off with a terrifying event. At exactly 2:17am on a seemingly normal Wednesday, 17 schoolkids in the fictional town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania, get up from their beds and flee into the night, never to be seen again. The story then follows the various plots springing from the traumatic disappearances.
What we didn’t know is that the missing children were all from one schoolteacher’s class, Mrs. Gandy, played by Julia Garner. And for obvious reasons, that leads to suspicion from the parents of the missing kids, including one played by Josh Brolin.
Others in the cast include Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, June Diane Raphael, and Cary Christopher as the only student from Gandy’s class who didn’t disappear.
SYNOPSIS: When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Weapons opens in theaters on August 8th via Warner Bros.
