Zach Cregger's Weapons new trailer is out and here's everything we know about the upcoming movie

Weapons is the second horror directorial of Zach Cregger, who earlier helmed the 2022's Barbarian. The film is also written by Cregger and is slated to be released in theatres on August 8, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures. Here is the official synopsis of the film as per Letterboxd,

When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

The makers recently released the second official trailer of the film, which has reportedly created much buzz on the internet.

When will Weapons release?

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Warner Bros. Pictures will be releasing Weapons on August 8, 2025. The film is produced by Zach Cregger (also its writer-director), Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, Raphael Margules, and J. D. Lifshitz. It's edited by Joe Murphy, while Larkin Seiple is the cinematographer.

What is the plot of Weapons?

The film revolves around a bizarre incident in a town when, on one night, children from the same school and the same classroom woke up at exactly the same time and disappeared. The number of kids that disappeared into the dark is 17. People of that town are left to wonder what had happened as they try to find out. All the kids who left were seen running towards something with their hands moving freely.

Who is starring in Weapons?

The cast members of Weapons and the characters they play are as follows,

Josh Brolin as Archer Graff
Julia Garner as Justine Gandy
Alden Ehrenreich as Paul
Austin Abrams as Anthony
Cary Christopher as Alex Lilly
Benedict Wong as Andrew
June Diane Raphael as Gladys
Clayton Farris as Terry
Amy Madigan
Whitmer Thomas
Toby Huss as Captain Ed
Luke Speakman as Matthew Graff

In January 2025, Zach Cregger spoke to Empire about his upcoming horror film, calling it weirder than his previous film.

[It’s] a fun movie. It’s funny, it’s scary, it’s inviting. It’s not a grim, morose slog. And yet the story it tells is really fucked up. [It's] creatively ambitious [and] “a lot bigger and weirder than Barbarian”.

Reflecting on the theme of his earlier film and Weapons, the director said:

“Barbarian was an exploration of social themes; [it] was me looking at the world around me. This is more an exploration of my own personal s*it, for lack of a better word. Weapons is me looking within, and working on myself.”

In a separate interview with EW, Cregger revealed that he was inspired by Magnolia to make the film.

“I just like that kind of unapologetic, This is an epic. I love that movie. I love that kind of bold scale. It gave me permission when I was writing this to shoot for the stars and make it an epic. I wanted a horror epic, and so I tried to do that.”

Talking about his upcoming film, Cregger added,

“The movie will fork and change and reinvent and go in new places. It doesn’t abandon that question, believe me, but that’s not the whole movie at all. By the midpoint, we’ve moved on to way crazier shit than that.”

Are you looking forward to the film?