HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — After frightening audiences with his 2022 horror breakout Barbarian , writer and director Zach Cregger had most of Hollywood jockeying to work with him on whatever twisted idea he dreamt up next. Article content

Cregger’s screenplay for Weapons , his highly-anticipated follow-up film that lands in theatres this week, became one of the most sought-after projects in Tinseltown. Jordan Peele wanted to lend his name to it so badly that he is rumoured to have cut ties with his management team when they failed to obtain the rights to produce Cregger’s new thriller. Article content Article content

But Josh Brolin was one of the last remaining people working in the movie industry who didn’t know the upstart horror phenomenon.

When the script landed on his desk

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