After finding huge success with the low-budget horror movie Barbarian in 2022, director Zach Cregger has sold his next movie and the first details about it have come to light.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film is called Weapons. Although plot details are under wraps, the site reported that it will be an "interrelated, multistory horror epic" similar in tone to the 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson movie Magnolia.
According to the report, Cregger's representation took the script to market on the morning of January 22, and a "brief but intense" bidding war came to bear and wrapped up in under 24 hours. New Line ended up securing the rights to Weapons, paying Cregger a fee in the range of eight figures ($10 million-$99 million) to write and direct, the site's sources said. That fee is more than double the budget of Barbarian ($4.5 million).
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