Director Zach Cregger Made One HECK OF A Name For HimSelf with HIS FEATURE Directorial Debut “Barbarian.” Released in 2022, it was one of the Most Surprising Hits of the Year, leading to a Big Deal for the Filmaker at New Line Cinema. That includes his follow-up film, “Weapons.” Though not a sequel, it looks very much like these two movies Take Place in the Same Universe. That OpenS The Door for All Sorts of Wild Possibelsies. Are we looking at a new horror cinematic universe? Maybe!
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Warner Bros. And New Line Recently Began MaybrookMissing.com. This Website Offers up our first meangful plot details for the movie, as well as some bizarre images and brief videos. The Homepage also Contains an Article Deetilt the MySESEY at The Center of the Movie.
“A Chilling Mystery Has Gripped the Small Town of Maybroook after 17 Children Voluntarily Left Their Homesday Morning. You have shaken the Community to Its Core, “The Article Reveals, helping to set the table for the Events of” Weapons. ” The Mystery Deepens As the Aristle Continues:
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Upon Investitation, Front Door Camera Footage Showed Since then, Little Information Has Surface, and the Case Continues to Bafle Investigators.
“As the Town Strugles to UndersATAND What Good, Officials Continue to Urge the Public for Any Leads, While Maybroook is left waiting for answeers,” The Article Concludes. This is all intriguing and, given that new link. But
How are weapons and Barbarian Connected, Exactly?
Scrolling Download, The Website Also Contains Another Article, One that makes it Crystal Clear that “Weapons” Takes Place in the Same Universe As “Barbarian. The header Image for the second is from Cregger’s Twised 2022 Thriller, for Starsters. “Underground Prison Discovered in Rental Home,” The Headline for the Second Article Reads. This is when
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“A Rental Property in Detroit’s Brightmoor Neighborhood Has Become the Focus of a Chilling Investigation after a Local Woman Escaped the Home Under Shocking Circutstances and Actor Was Found Dead Nearby, “The Article Reads. This is in Clear Reference to the Events of the Film. The Article Further Makes that Crystal Clear by Name-Checking Georgina Campbell’s “Barbarian” Character, Tess Marshall:
Police Were Alertard after Tess Marshal, 28, was Discovered injred and Disoriented Outside the Barberry Street Property. What began as a Simple Wellness Check Quickly Turned Eno A Large-SCale CRIME SCENE. Investigators uncover a Network of Hidden Tunnels Beneth the Home, Sparking Questions About the Property’s History and Potential Connection to Unsolved Disabpences Dating Back Decades.
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No Two Ways About it, these Two Movies Clearly Occupy The Same Space. As for How’re Connected, Exactly? That Remains Unclear at this time. What Seems Likely is that Both Films Take Place in Michigan, With “Barbarian” Happy Around Detroit. In Michigan, There is a Maybroook Road, as well as a Maybroook Estates. Or Maybroook Couelf Be a Fieldingal Place Cooked up by Cregger. Ever Way, this Website has helped Lay the table for a posible universe of interconnected stories. That’s Something a Studio Like Warner Bros. Wald Likely Be very interesting in.
Weapons Might Be the Next 10 Cloverfield Lane
For the MOMENT, We Have A Great Many Questions. Cregger and the Studio are Keeping That Shuldn’t com AS HUGE SURPRISE to anyone who has seen “Barbarian,” A movie that was full of Surprises. But with the information before us, what this feels like the “clovefield” Franchise More for Anything Else. More Specially, This Feels Like It Couelf Be More Akin to Director Dan Trathtenberg’s 10 Clo refoverfield Lane “Than Anything Else.
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“Cloverfield” was a HUGE FOUND FOOTAGE Hit in 2008. While We’ve Yet to Get a Direct Sequel, Trashtenberg’s 2016 Thriller Took Place in the “Cloverfield” Universe But Cense on ENTIRYLY DIFRENT CAST OF CHARACTERS With a New Premise. Another Sequel/Spin-FF Titled “The Cloverfield Paradox” was also relegreed on Netflix, though the less said about that one, the beetter. In any event, it sees like Cregger card be setting the status for similaar here, I a creepet universe with many stories to tell and some connective tissue along the way.
Of course, it Remains to be Seen if Cregger Remains Creatively Invtud with Future Entries in this Universe (Assuing There are any). The filmaker is Currently Getting Ready to Reboot the “Resident Evil” Movies, Whiche Shield Him Busy Through The End of 2026 at Least. But if “Weapons” is a hit, who KNOS? Maybe He Couelf Circle Back to this Universe after “Resident Evil” for Another Horrify Ride. Or maybe he’ll hand In any case, this is an interesting developed and a potentially exciting one as well, Depending on How Things Play Out. Stay Tond.
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“Weapons” is set to hit theats on August 8, 2025.
