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The filmmaker's creative team behind the camera includes director of photography Larkin Seiple, production designer Tom Hammock, editor Joe Murphy and costume designer Trish Summerville.
The music is by Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger. New Line Cinema Presents A Subconscious/Vertigo Entertainment/BoulderLight Pictures Production, A Zach Cregger Film, Weapons.
It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and released in theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025, and internationally beginning 6 August 2025.
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- Irish Independent
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The film stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Cregger directs from his own screenplay, and also produces alongside Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, with Michelle Morrissey and Josh Brolin executive producing. The filmmaker's creative team behind the camera includes director of photography Larkin Seiple, production designer Tom Hammock, editor Joe Murphy and costume designer Trish Summerville. The music is by Ryan Holladay, Hays Holladay and Zach Cregger. New Line Cinema Presents A Subconscious/Vertigo Entertainment/BoulderLight Pictures Production, A Zach Cregger Film, Weapons. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and released in theaters and IMAX nationwide on August 8, 2025, and internationally beginning 6 August 2025.
Sunday World
11-08-2025
- Sunday World
Julia Garner reveals how shyness ‘became my secret weapon'
She found global fame with Ozark, went on to become part of the Marvel juggernaut and now stars in creepy horror Weapons, but Julia Garner tells Esther McCarthy how she got into acting in a bid to overcome timidness It's a super screen summer for Julia Garner, who is starring in two of this year's most-anticipated movies following her star-making role in Ozark. As well as her recent turn in Marvel hit The Fantastic Four: First Steps, the actress is starring in the gritty new horror, Weapons. Yet the US star has revealed her success came about because of her struggles with shyness when she was younger. In a bid to overcome it, Garner signed up for acting classes — and although she's still shy by nature, she says her new hobby quickly became her greatest passion. 'I started in this business because I was very shy,' she says. 'I am shy but with this job you have no choice — but I love my work and I love working with people and meeting new people. Julia Garner with Jason Bateman in Ozark 'I started taking acting classes to overcome my shyness. I used to do a lot of student films for Columbia Film School. The student film-maker's girlfriend was interning at a casting office and my first audition was an open casting call with thousands of people. I didn't get the job but a couple of months later she cast Martha Marcy May Marlene and that was my first movie.' That US indie proved to be a gamechanger for many emerging stars when it first screened at Sundance in 2011, as it focused on a woman (Elizabeth Olsen) dealing with the aftermath of her time in an abusive cult. It was critically acclaimed and although the then-teenager Garner's role was a supporting one, it marked an early indication of her raw talent. It was perhaps no surprise, however, that the young Garner would turn to the arts, given her family background. Julia on the red carpet Born in The Bronx before attending school in Connecticut, mum Tamar was a therapist who also worked as an actress and comedian, while dad Thomas is an artist and art teacher. It was playing the foul-mouthed and fearsome Ruth Langmore in the critically acclaimed crime saga Ozark that made Garner a star, bagging her a Golden Globe and three Emmy Awards in the process. Julia Garner at the Weapons world premiere on Broadway last month News in 90 seconds - 11th August 2025 Ozark was no one-off and soon the actress was finding roles in gritty indie dramas with a tinge of horror. She took the lead role in the much-talked about The Assistant, filmmaker Kitty Green's excellent tale of an intern who finds herself in a film company with a cynical and abusive culture. Julia as Justine in Weapons She teamed with Green again for The Royal Hotel, a tale of two young backpackers who find themselves out of their depth in the Australian outback. Out in Irish cinemas from this weekend, Weapons sees her star opposite Josh Brolin in a chilling tale of a how several children from the same school class vanish on the same night at the same time, all going missing with no apparent reason why. The less you know about the movie going in, the better, she reckons. 'Weapons is a crazy kind of mystery horror movie that has so many elements,' she says. 'It's multi-layered and totally amazing. It's a movie that is actually hard to describe. This is a movie you need to discover and experience for yourself. It's that kind of crazy experience,' she says, adding that the movie taps into 'the fear of the unknown and the lack of control that comes with that. There is also a lot to do with addiction in the movie and how all the characters are having to deal with that in some way'. Julia with co-star Josh Brolin As her previous movies reveal, Garner has always been drawn to the dark side of human nature and starred in a number of gritty and scary movies before turning her attention to Weapons. What is the draw for her in such material? 'The thing that always interests me about horror is almost in the same way how people talk about comedy, which is the timing. That is always a challenge. Timing can make the movie and it can ruin the movie so it's important to nail it and to get every jump-scare just right. But Weapons is not really a typical horror movie. It's different. It has comedic elements and, well... you have to see it.' As is often the case with making horror movies, there was often a fun atmosphere on set as people look for some light relief between takes. In Garner's case, much of the laughs came courtesy of her co-star, Josh Brolin. 'He is such a brilliant actor and just a great guy. He's hilarious actually. We giggled all day, even though it was very serious work. But the whole cast was amazing. I had such a fun time, despite the subject matter, which is often the case, weirdly. It's like the heavier the movie, the more fun you have,' she laughs. The older star — whose many roles include playing Thanos in the Marvel Universe — also spoke with Garner as she prepared to take on her first role in the blockbuster series. She plays the humanoid alien with metallic skin, Silver Surfer, in the new Fantastic Four movie. 'He told me a little bit about what to expect because he also did a lot of motion capture for Thanos. He gave me some great words of wisdom.' In real life, Garner is married to Mark Foster, the frontman of indie pop band Foster the People. The couple have been together since 2019, and while her hubby has been supporting her on her Weapons press tour, they keep their romance low-key. The couple, who first met at the Sundance Film Festival, got married at New York's City Hall — just like Julia's parents did four decades earlier. While her roots are in episodic TV and indie movies, earlier this summer Garner dipped her toe into the Marvel Universe, taking on the Silver Surfer role in one of the biggest comic-book movies of them all. Shot in Pinewood Studios near London, the actress is now a leading character in one of summer's biggest hits. 'It's pretty fun. It's kind of empowering. You feel like a little kid again. But the whole experience, shooting at Pinewood, everything was just incredible.' Still, she tries to avoid getting caught up in the inevitable attention that her growing on-screen profile brings. When asked how she feels about being one of Hollywood's most in-demand young stars, she says: 'It's really hard to answer that because I don't think of myself like that. I just focus on the work. I can say that I feel very lucky to have these opportunities and to get to play complex and interesting characters. I'm just happy that people are interested in the characters too.' Weapons is now in cinemas.
Extra.ie
10-08-2025
- Extra.ie
FILM OF THE WEEK: Weapons - Reviewed by Roe mcDermott
Zach Cregger's Weapons opens with so much eerie confidence that, for a while, it feels like something truly great. The concept is irresistible: at precisely 2.17am, seventeen children from the same class wake up and walk out of their homes, arms outstretched, into the suburban dark, running out of view of any camera until they disappear. It's an image that strikes like a match – odd, arresting, already iconic – and the sequence that follows is thick with mood, mystery and that rare kind of horror-film promise that anything could happen, and probably will. A child's voice narrates, sweetly and ominously, setting the story up as something between a local legend and a modern parable. As George Harrison's 'Beware of Darkness' swells on the soundtrack, it becomes clear that whatever Weapons is, it won't be ordinary. Cregger is a born mood conjurer – his camera glides with menace and his tone is confidently off-kilter. Like Osgood Perkins' 2024 Longlegs, Weapons thrives on atmosphere. The comparisons go further: both films offer meticulously crafted openings, strikingly unsettling world-building and the promise of something psychologically shattering, only to later reveal something stranger and sillier. Where Longlegs gives us a bizarre villain who slightly deflated the dread, Weapons goes further, introducing a theatrical, camp antagonist whose late arrival will delight some and derail others. There's a gallows-humour energy that kicks in around the midpoint, and while Cregger clearly relishes the tonal shift, it sends the film down a more cartoonish path, pulling focus away from the human horror it set up so well. The story unfolds in chapters, each showing the same days or hours from different perspectives – a teacher (Julia Garner), a parent (Josh Brolin), a police officer (Alden Ehrenreich), a troubled teen (Austin Abrams), and others best left unspoiled. It's a Rashomon-style structure that seems to promise a prismatic emotional complexity. While it's cleverly constructed and delivers some satisfying plot mechanics, the effect is mostly aesthetic. Characters remain thin, serving the puzzle more than the plot, and the repetition doesn't deepen the mystery so much as stretch it out. Still, the cast – especially Garner and Brolin – bring texture where they can, and the sense of being spun around in an elegant, escalating web keeps you engaged, if not always emotionally invested. There are flashes of something weightier under the surface, and for a while it seems like the film is edging towards allegory. The town turning in on itself, the violence of fearful parents, a dream sequence involving a machine gun, and of course the image of a class of children disappearing without trace all hint at the shadow of school shootings, the terror of not knowing what your child might be exposed to, or what kind of world they are inheriting. But these echoes remain faint and unfulfilled, breadcrumbs rather than a path, and any political or emotional resonance is quickly overtaken by the story's more outlandish twists and truly silly visual choices (some of which were spoiled in early trailers that are best avoided). Still, it's hard to deny the film's magnetism, while it lasts. Cregger has grown more ambitious since Barbarian, and in many ways, Weapons is a better film. It's more confident, inventive and carefully composed. But for all its polish and promise, it still feels like a genre exercise in search of a centre, a film more interested in playing with structure and style than saying something lasting. By the time the climax arrives – gruesome, bizarre, darkly funny and occasionally slapstick – the haunting power of that first hour has mostly drained away. What began as a nightmare ends as a bit of a joke, and a particular choice about the resolution avoids a harrowing and complex reckoning that would have been far more intriguing. For some, that might be the point: a nasty fairy tale with no moral, no safety net, no grappling. But for a film that seems to promise something bigger, stranger, and more profound, Weapon hits a little wide of the mark.
