Weapons’ Aunt Gladys actress reveals if she’s actually returning for the prequel

Weapons has been an absolute runaway success – truly the essential horror film of 2025. What Zach Cregger created with his occult mystery has been utterly compelling viewing, and it’s thrilling to see a horror film win over critics and fans of horror so simultaneously. Most of this success must be attributed to the utterly fascinating villain the film boasts with Aunt Gladys – the culprit behind the children disappearing in Maybrook and one of the most engaging and terrifying villains in horror since maybe Longlegs. So much of this has to do with Amy Madigan and her acclaimed portrayal of Aunt Gladys in Weapons, and now the Oscar nominated legend has addressed the much discussed, potentially looming prequel and if she’s going to return for it or not.

The Aunt Gladys prequel Weapons film is all anyone wants

Last week, rumours broke that New Line were desperate to get a prequel film going for Weapons centred on Aunt Gladys – as she is the only character in the film who gets no dedicated chapter where the narrative explores her motivations. Director Zach Cregger said that he wrote one but got rid of it to keep the film more scary.

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Madigan spoke to Entertainment Weekly about the rumours and if she’d return. Madigan explained “It’s not that I discount it, but in this business, nothing’s real till it’s real. 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.”

I’m taking it as a positive, personally.

She also spoke about her characterisation of the terrifying parasitic witch, where she said “I used a lot of different bits of information, but I wouldn’t say it’s one or the other. I think it’s a combination of a lot of things. People ask that question, ‘Is she real or is it this or that?’ I said, ‘Good, you guys figure it out ’cause I can’t answer that.’”

Zach Cregger previously told Vanity Fair that he “presented Amy with two options of her origin story,” one being a regular person practicing magic to heal herself from a critical illness, the other being a non-human entity mimicking human behaviour.

“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,” explained Cregger. “I don’t know which one she picked.”

What a saga.

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