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EXCLUSIVE: Zach Cregger and Zach Shields will constitute nan screenplay for nan upcoming prequel to nan critically acclaimed scary hit Weapons. The New Line and Warner Bros. project’s existent moving title is Gladys.
Cregger and Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon are returning to produce. Cregger is repped by CAA, Artists First and Karl Austen and Michael Auerbach.
Weapons grossed complete $270 cardinal worldwide. Amy Madigan, who portrayed main antagonist Aunt Gladys, won an Academy Award for Best Actress successful a Supporting Role. Madigan besides won an Actor Award from SAG for her domiciled arsenic nan mysterious comparative of Alex (Cary Christopher).
“This is simply a female who knows what she has to do, and she does it,” Madigan said of her character successful an question and reply pinch Deadline earlier her Oscar win. “Now, granted, immoderate of her methods mightiness beryllium a small unusual. But she has that, and I deliberation each women successful our business should person much of that confidence, myself included. So if I tin return that distant from it, I’ll opportunity this is simply a triumph for Aunt Gladys and for me.”
Zach Shields astir precocious worked on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire for Warner Bros. and Legendary. Prior to that, he co‑wrote Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla: King of nan Monsters and Krampus for Universal pinch Michael Dougherty.
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In television, he astir precocious co‑executive produced Alma Har’el’s Lady successful nan Lake for Apple starring Natalie Portman. He besides served arsenic consulting shaper on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters for Apple. Earlier this year, Shields’ play Dad’s Leg starring Rain Spencer, Emily Althaus and Ted Monte, ran astatine Los Angeles’ Hudson Theatre from Feb. 20 to March 2. The acheronian drama watches 2 estranged sisters conflict complete their father’s soon-to-be-amputated limb while rehashing their past.
Shields is repped by Range Media Partners and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof and Fishman.
Cregger’s movie adjustment of nan video game Resident Evil is slated for merchandise connected September 18, 2026.
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