The director of “Barbarian” prepares a new horror film with a budget of one million dollars

After directing the filmbarbarian’ which surprised audiences and critics in 2022, the director Zach Creger He was hired by the production company New Line to write and direct a new horror film that promises to be a resounding success and for which he received an 8-figure budget.

According to a report shared by The Hollywood Reporterthe director of ‘Barbaro’, Zach Cregger has signed a contract with New Line after the script for his upcoming horror film titled ‘Weapons’ was auctioned off to several production companies and streaming platforms who wanted to work on what promises to be this director’s next big blockbuster.

Zach Cregger’s work writing the screenplay for ‘Weapons’ turned out to be so exciting that New Line not only won the auction with an 8-figure million dollar contract, but also guaranteed her the green light to work on the production of the film and on top of that, it’s also a fact that will arrive at the cinema, betting to the maximum on the director’s talent.

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This New Line strategy has surprised the film industry since Zach Cregger is not a recognized director for his long career and the film “Barbarian” is the first to put him on the map, so it is unusual that the production house is betting heavily on him , so the script started generating high expectations among horror movie fans.

As reported by sources DAYthe studio hopes that Zach Cregger will become an important figure in horror cinema in the future and this is just the beginning of a long relationship between him and the production house, making it clear that there is the possibility of seeing another film in collaboration with this director who will soon return to the big screen.

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At the moment it is too early to have details regarding the new work of Zach Cregger, such as the official cast of the story let alone a possible release date, however it has been revealed that ‘Weapons’ will be a multiple horror story that will have related stories and is described as an epic storyline in the vein of “Magnolia”.

Thanks to New Line’s surprise purchase in said auction, the fact remains that the script for ‘Weapons’ is amazing, otherwise the studio would not have bet the maximum for the work of Zach Cregger, director of ‘Barbarian’, who should re-present an equally astonishing and astounding story.