Zach Cregger quotes how Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 drama “Magnolia” inspired his “horrorpic”, “Arms. “Sure, it may seem like the iconic star -studded”Magnolia“Has not much in common with Cregger’s (albeit secret) others film “Weapon”, but the author/director credits how “Magnolia” gave him “permission” to think big.
“I just like that kind of oapologetic,” this is an epic, “Cregger said Entertainment every week of the “magnolia” effect. “I love that movie. I love that kind of bold scale. It gave me permission when I wrote this to shoot for the stars and make it an epic. I wanted a horror post, and so I tried to do it.”
Even the aesthetic choices in “Weapons” have nods to PTA’s masterpiece: Cregger said that the “weapon” star Alden Ehrenreich has a mustache for the role of reference to John C. Reilly’s “Magnolia” look.
While a bit known about Cregger’s latest horror/thriller, the new line Cinema Chief Richard Brenner described The movie as’Batshit crazy. “Cregger agrees with that categorization and says the mystery of missing children will” pushing you through at least half of the film, but that is not the movie. “He teased,” the movie will fork and change and invent and go in new places. It doesn’t abandon that question, believe me, but it’s not the whole movie at all. At the midpoint we have moved on to Way Crazier shit than that. ”
Cregger added that after his debut on the 2022 debut “Barbarian”, the Barbarian “debut set the pressure to deliver. “It was stressful,” Cregger said. “People might think from the outside and looked at I threw dollar bills in the air and called enemies and said:” Fuck you. “The truth in the matter was that it is a very high pressure sac, and people got pissed and it was stressful.
He continued that compared to “Barbarian”, “Weapon” is “more ambitious in almost every way.”
“I mean not only when it comes to the budget, but I just mean creatively,” Cregger said. “The story is more violent and it is a snoir and it is bigger. I have a lot more actors to fit into this thing. Those set pieces are definitely bigger. It’s just a bigger, more movie than” Barbarian “is.”
“Weapons” premieres August 8 in theaters from Warner Bros. Pictures.
