WEAPONS is finally out in theaters, and I'm reading and listening to these different interviews with Zach Cregger, and what I love is listening to his process of writing and development of the film. I'm a lover of PTA's MAGNOLIA, and to hear that the structure of WEAPONS was partially inspired by the novelistic structure of MAGNOLIA was a very pleasing detail I learned. I think another detail that stuck with me was the fact that Cregger began writing the film as a way to help cope with the loss of his friend Trevor Moore, and that the basis of the film was loss and how certain characters cope with the loss of the 17 children who go missing. If you stay long enough, you'll see that David Fincher is even thanked in the end credits. Cregger opened up about how Fincher was there as a technical guide and opened Cregger up to different technical aspects, and if you've seen BTS clips with Fincher, you'll see he really is a technical director!
What are your thoughts on he filmmaking aspects that went into the making of this film, and do some of these details feel familiar for your own filmmaking experience?
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I'm really looking forward to seeing Weapons and the interviews with Zach Cregger, Sam Rivera!
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Watched it at the weekend and thought it was an incredible piece of filmmaking. The balance of horror and humor was perfect and the structure really worked in terms of keeping the audience on their toes. He took familiar horror themes but made them feel fresh.
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I've been watching a lot of his interviews and love how he talks about his writing process, being he starts with an idea and just writes and lets the story unravel itself. I'm one of these writers but always felt like doing this method was seen as a flex? It felt like plotting was the more superior method because I felt it was more talked about, but I love hearing Zach talk about it. The downfall to writing like this though is like he said... you end up with a lot of scripts where you get half way through and get stuck.