Amy Madigan delivered one of the scariest performances of the year as Aunt Gladys in Weapons, and amid rumors of a prequel exploring her origins, she’s addressed whether she’d return. Spoilers to follow…
Warner Bros’ marketing for Weapons was intentionally guarded. If you watched the trailers, you knew it was a horror movie that revolved around a classroom of kids disappearing in the middle of the night, but they didn’t give away anything about why it happened or who was responsible.
Aunt Gladys is the answer. After sneaky, frightening glimpses in the first half, she fully arrives during Alex’s segment of the film, summoning the soon-to-be-missing children to a house in a desperate effort to heal herself with their energy (or something like that).
Things do not end well for Madigan’s villain, but that doesn’t mean we’ll never see her again, according to new reports.
Amy Madigan addresses Aunt Gladys Weapons prequel
As per The Hollywood Reporter, it’s possible that Zach Cregger could develop a prequel to Weapons based on a chapter he cut from the movie that would have focused on Gladys and her backstory.
Speaking to EW, Madigan didn’t say no to the idea – but she’s very aware that it’s out of her hands.
“It’s not that I discount it, but in this business, nothing’s real till it’s real,” she said.
“I just had such a great time working with Zach and being inside that brain of his. That’s really the gift of how the movie came out. The other stuff has to do with all sorts of conversations that I would never be privy in and business things like that. But, you know, I love Gladys, so I’ll leave it at that.”
Cregger hasn’t gone into any detail about what a Weapons follow-up would look like or who would star in it. “I have another idea for something in this world that I’m kind of excited about,” he teased to Variety.
“I’m not going to do it next, and I probably won’t do it after my next movie, but I do have one and I’d like to see it on the screen one day.”
As for Aunt Gladys, he purposely didn’t give too much away – and even he doesn’t know everything about her.
“I don’t know the answer, but I love that I don’t know the answer. I don’t need to know the answer, I just need to know that it’s all possible,” he explained.
“I presented Amy with two options of her origin story. I was like, ‘You can pick one of these two.’ They’re very different options. And was like, ‘You don’t have to tell me, but it is either this or that.’ I don’t know which one she picked.”
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