Weapons (Zach Cregger, August 8, 2025) Movie • Page 56

I think you guys are taking the term blank check more literally than intended. I'm just saying the success of Weapons could obviously open him upnto.another original project next, whether Netflix bit or not

 

It’s a gradual build with more and more cache with each hit. Obviously if we are measuring “blank checks” as only Nolan and Cameron sized offerings than the pool is very limited

 

i mean if he cannot get the movie funded, as big as his cache is after weapons, he still is a relatively "small" filmmaker. which is good and fine. i don't mind him taking a few paydays if it leads to something real getting made. i just lost a bit of interest in the prequel being a potentially good movie lol.

 

Halo?

 

i hope not

he's been saying in interviews since weapons came out his next original idea was sci-fi. and then netflix was interested but wouldn't pay up. i'd imagine this is that.

 

I was just joshin.

 

We know.

 

My guess is he doesn’t direct Gladys and just co-writes and produces it

 

two in two months??

 

Amblin is producing The Flood, which tracks with Spielberg's praise of Weapons. Exciting stuff.

 

let's go

The Flood (Zach Cregger) • forum.chorus.fm

 

This is confirmed now. I'm still iffy on this movie existing but at least if it sucks I can pretend it doesn't exist in Cregger's filmography lol

 

Gladys might only exist as a negotiation tactic from Cregger to get New Line to make The Flood

 

I don't know why it's important to view this through the lens of "he only made this because of". Clearly he had an idea for this when he was writing Weapons as it was originally part of the script, and he had interest in continuing with a sequel of some kind. I get that he's not directing it, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's just doing it as leverage.

 

idk about this situation but that is quite literally how it works in Hollywood a lot of the time

Ella McCay got greenlit because James L Brooks agreed with disney/fox to keep The Simpsons going

 

No, I get that. I'm trying to illustrate there's evidence that this is not necessarily that. If this situation were in a vacuum, I'd agree, but my point is that the prequel was clearly already something he had kicking around.

 

I'm not even saying it wasn't still a tit for tat, it's more the idea that the only reason this is happening is because of that.

It just kind of reeks of people looking for an excuse to undermine any autonomy in the decision because they don't like that it's being made.

 

sure - i see it as justified cynicism in the hollywood system

who knows

 

Is that true? Does he even have the power to cancel it, I thought he’s basically a creator credit now.

I ask as someone who just completed the Ella McCay challenge (I watched the whole movie) and thought it was one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.

 

laughed

 

It wasn’t to keep the Simpsons going. It was to make another Simpsons movie.

but yes Ella mccay got greenlit bc he agreed to produce another Simpsons movie for Fox.

 

I’m deeply cynical

 

Should I do the Ella McKay challenge?