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Weapons: Is Josh Brolin Starrer Based on Real-Life Events? All We Know About Zach Cregger’s Horror Film
Josh Brolin and Julia Garner starrer Weapons is the newest addition to the horror genre. Amid Zach Cregger directorial creating a buzz, fans are wondering if the film is based on true events.
Weapons is out in theaters, and fans are loving the mysterious vibe of it. As Josh Brolin and Julia Garner’s performances are hailed in the movie, fans wonder if the film is based on real-life events.
Directed by Zach Cregger, the film revolves around the concept of 17 children disappearing in the middle of the night. The unnatural phenomenon leaves their parents worried and terrified.
The movie provides a uniquely haunting experience to the audience while also planting a seed of doubt in their minds that the movie might be based on true events.
Real-life events that inspired Weapons
According to the media reports, Weapons is based on a personal tragedy faced by the director, Zach Cregger, while writing the script of the film. The filmmaker first entered the horror genre with his 2022 movie, Barbarian, which was loved by the critics as well as the audience.
However, while editing the movie, the filmmaker lost his best friend, Trevor Moore, after he tripped off a railing.
Trying to explore the situation, the filmmaker put his tragedy in words, and it created Weapons. While speaking to a media portal about the latest release, Cregger revealed to GQ, “The movie’s about that overwhelming emotion you get when you lose someone close to you. This script was me venting about that. So I didn’t explode.”
When the idea first came to the director, he got an image of a young girl telling the tragic story at a campfire.
As for the plot of the film, the official synopsis reads, “When all but one child from the same classroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.”
Apart from Brolin and Graner, Weapons also stars Austin Abrams, Benedict Wong, Amy Madigan, June Diane Raphael, and Cary Christopher, among others.
Weapons is running in theaters successfully.
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