Weapons by Zach Cregger | The Screenplay Lab
Using Chapters for Six POVs
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Weapons by Zach Cregger
This Week on The Screenplay Lab
The making of Zach Cregger
How he wrote Weapons and Barbarian
How Weapons was produced
Loglines
Screenplay Statistics
Box office success
Unique formatting
Title cards for POV
Six chapters via POV
Naming characters
Camera POV
Montage formatting
Whitespace on the page
Camera movements
Direction on the page
Horror elements
Cregger’s process
Character introductions
Dialogue
Behind the scenes
Using writing asides
Cregger’s voice
Ari Aster and Jordan Peele
Themes
Meaning
Love scenes
Script/Film differences
Nonlinear storytelling
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