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Logo text Gladys, the breakout character from Zach Cregger’s Weapons, is ready to steal the whole show. Cregger and screenwriter Zach Shields, known for his work on the Monsterverse franchise, are penning the script for a planned prequel feature for the filmmaker’s 2025 horror hit. Gladys is the working title for the project in development at New Line Cinema. Centering on a group of children who go missing in the middle of the night, Weapons hit theaters in August from Warner Bros. and collected $270 million at the global box office. The cast included Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, and Amy Madigan, with the latter earning the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as Aunt Gladys. The Hollywood Reporter previously reported that Cregger was mulling a prequel movie to focus on the origin story of Aunt Gladys’ arrival to town. Amy Madigan told THR that Zach has a map of what he would like to do, describing it as a blast and expressing excitement about revisiting her. Cregger, known for directing Barbarian and working on Resident Evil for Sony, returns as a producer for the prequel alongside Vertigo Entertainment’s Roy Lee and Miri Yoon. Zach Shields recently worked on Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire for Warner Bros. and Legendary. His previous credits include Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, and Universal’s Krampus. Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, and Zach Cherry star in Resident Evil, which reboots the video game property and is set to hit theaters on September 18.