00:01This is a true story.
00:02It happened right here in my town.
00:05At 2.17 in the morning, every kid walked into the dark,
00:10and they never came back.
00:13Callie and Whit, step back towards me here.
00:15Just push the counter.
00:17After Barbarian, I wanted to make something
00:19that felt a lot more ambitious.
00:21So I set out to write something that was just going to be
00:24an escalation from everything I did in Barbarian in every way.
00:28So I wanted it to feel bigger in scope, bigger in risk,
00:32and much more personal.
00:33Dad, where were you?
00:35That's it.
00:36Weapons is scary than Barbarian,
00:38but it's also a much more fascinating story.
00:41It's an original story,
00:43and original things are more and more rare these days.
00:47The central question that this movie asks is why.
00:50Why just her classroom? Why only her?
00:52Why did one classroom of kids decide on the same night
00:57at 2.17 in the morning to get out of bed,
01:00walk downstairs, open the front door,
01:02and walk out into the dark and never come back?
01:04You don't know where we're going to go next.
01:07This is a movie that has kind of one central mystery,
01:11and it has all these different characters
01:12that are orbiting that central mystery.
01:14These contrasting storylines represented a part of him,
01:18and I was very moved by that.
01:20It's so rare to be able to watch a movie
01:25and not know where it's going, what's going to happen.
01:28I feel confident in saying that's the case with weapons.
01:31Help me! Someone, please!
01:34Right!
01:38Go!
01:40Good, good.
01:42Good.
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