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  • Good luck sleeping tonight after you watch the Weapons trailer

    If you have nightmares after watching the official trailer for Weapons, blame Zach Cregger. The writer-director behind Barbarian returns with a new thrilling horror about a case of missing children in the town of Maybrook.

    “This is a true story that happened in my town,” a young child ominously states in the trailer. “Every other class had all their kids, but Mrs. Gandy’s room was totally empty.”

    One night, all but one kid in Mrs. Gandy’s class woke up at 2:17 a.m., walked downstairs, left their houses, and vanished. The children never returned. The parents of the missing children are begging for answers. What could have happened? Is there something sinister at play?

    The trailer cuts to a shot of the children face down at their desks in a dark classroom. One of the children sadistically looks up from his seat before Julia Garner, who plays the teacher, Mrs. Gandy, wakes up in her bed screaming.

    Besides Garner, the Weapons cast includes Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.

    A child runs in a neighborhood in Weapons.
    New Line Cinema

    Cregger writes and directs Weapons, a horror epic he compared to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia. Cregger produces alongside Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz, and Raphael Margules.

    After the success of 2022’s Barbarian, many studios lined up to win the rights to Weapons. After a heated bidding war, Warner Bros.’ New Line Cinema won the auction for approximately $38 million. $10 million went to Cregger for writing, directing, and producing the project.

    Universal was one of the finalists for Weapons alongside New Line. Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions would have produced Weapons. There are many rumors as to why Universal did not match the bid put forward by New Line Cinema. What’s true is that Peele parted ways with his managers Joel Zadak and Peter Principato after losing the auction. Ironically, Principato is Cregger’s manager.

    Peele is not the only one who believes in Weapons. Warner Bros. is so confident that Weapons will be a hit that it moved the thriller from 2026 to the summer of 2025. Weapons will now open in theaters on August 8, 2025.

  • The footage from Zach Cregger’s Weapons is absolutely terrifying

    Much of Zach Cregger’s Weapons has been clouded in secrecy. Warner Bros. has kept images, videos, characters, and plot details under lock and key … until now.

    The studio has released the first teaser trailer for Weapons, and the spine-tingling footage previews a terrifying mystery. The video begins with a shot of an alarm clock that reads 2:17 a.m. As the ticking noise intensifies, a man says to a concerned parent, “Mr. Graff, I can understand your passion, and I don’t mind having these conversations with you, because God forbid, if it was my child, I’d be demanding answers too.”

    17 of 18 children from the same class left their homes one night in the small town of Maybrook. These children were caught on video sprinting through their neighborhoods. What they are running towards and why they are doing it remains unknown.

    “Those kids walked out of those homes,” another character, who sounds like Josh Brolin, says in response to the disturbing video. “No one pulled them out.”

    The teaser ends with the question, “What do you see that I don’t?”

    The video reveals the URL to a website for more information, Maybrookmissing.com. The site includes a brief new post about what happened that fateful night as the case “continues to baffle investigators.”

    A little boy runs across the street.
    Warner Bros.

    Weapons stars Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.

    Cregger writes and directs Weapons, the highly anticipated follow-up to Barbarian, one of the surprise hits of 2022.

    Warner Bros. believes Weapons has the potential to be a big hit. New Line Cinema, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., won the rights to Weapons in a heated bidding war for approximately $38 million.

    Warner Bros. reaffirmed their belief in Weapons by moving its release date from January 2026 to August 8, 2025. The latter was the release date for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, which moved to September 2025.