Interview With "Weapons" Filmmaker Zach Cregger

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

"Weapons" is the latest horror film from director and writer Zach Cregger, whose feature directorial debut, "Barbarian," was a huge success when it was released in 2022. His follow-up has been greatly anticipated since then, and Warner Bros. has done an incredible job marketing the film to get audiences super interested in what the horror filmmaker has up his sleeve for his latest. Working with an all-star cast that includes Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Cary Christopher, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong & Amy Madigan, the film follows the case of seventeen kids from the same classroom who mysteriously disappear overnight at the exact same time, with their teacher being the main suspect. Cregger was kind enough to speak with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released exclusively in theaters nationwide by Warner Bros. on August 8th. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is my interview with the director and writer for weapons.
0:07.7	Zach Kregor.
0:09.0	This is a true story that happened in my town.
0:13.4	So this one Wednesday is like a normal day for the whole school.
0:18.9	But today was different.
0:23.6	Every other class had all their kids.
0:27.6	But Mrs. Gandy's room was totally empty.
0:31.6	And you know why?
0:34.6	Because the night before, at 2.17 in the morning, every kid woke up, got out of bed, walked
0:45.3	downstairs, and into the dark.
0:49.3	And they never came back. I don't understand at all. Why just her classroom? Why only hers? Where are our children? We have a lot of emotional parents here. I think it's best if you keep some distance from this place.
1:11.6	... Matthew, where are you?
1:32.6	Matthew, where are you?
1:36.3	Where did you go? This is where the story really starts.
1:51.8	All right, everyone, I'm being joined right now by the director and writer for the film
1:54.8	Weapons, Zach Kregor.
1:56.4	Zach, thank you so much, man, for joining me here.
1:58.7	Thank you for having me.
2:00.0	I watched you this morning interviewing Ariester. That's funny. Oh, get out of here. That is really funny. Yeah, okay. Here we go. Anyway, sorry. Sorry to interrupt you. Just start over. My bad. Yeah, yeah, it's okay. All right, man. So I want to dive into this without obviously, spoiling anything. I think that's part of the fun and the surprise.
2:18.0	I think Water Brothers has done a hell of a job marketing this thing and getting people
2:21.2	excited for it.
2:22.7	So let's talk about some filmmaking decisions.
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