EXCLUSIVE: Zach Cregger and Zach Shields will write the screenplay for the upcoming prequel to the critically acclaimed horror hit Weapons. The New Line and Warner Bros. project’s current working title is Gladys.
Cregger and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon are returning to produce. Cregger is repped by CAA, Artists First and Karl Austen and Michael Auerbach.
Weapons grossed over $270 million worldwide. Amy Madigan, who portrayed main antagonist Aunt Gladys, won an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Madigan also won an Actor Award from SAG for her role as the mysterious relative of Alex (Cary Christopher).
“This is a woman who knows what she has to do, and she does it,” Madigan said of her character in an interview with Deadline before her Oscar win. “Now, granted, some of her methods might be a little unusual. But she has that, and I think
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