Actor Austin Abrams most recently appeared in Wolfs, an action comedy led by George Clooney and Brad Pitt. He will reprise his role as Ethan Lewis in season 3 of HBO's Euphoria, which is set to release in 2026. Entertainment Weekly recently revealed first-look images for Abrams' next project, a horror movie titled Weapons.
The film, written, directed, and produced by Zach Cregger, is a follow-up to his wildly successful 2022 horror film, Barbarian. Warner Bros. Pictures will release Weapons in the United States on Aug. 8, 2025.
The movie features multi-related plots surrounding the mysterious simultaneous disappearance of 17 children at exactly 2:17 a.m. on the same night. While the story begins with the missing children, Cregger tells EW that that missing children plot "isn't the movie. By the midpoint, we've moved on to way crazier s**t than that."
Julia Garner portrays Justine Gandy, a teacher at Maybrook Elementary whose entire class, save one student, goes missing. Josh Brolin plays the parent of one of the missing children who finds the fact that all the missing children are from Ms. Gandy's class suspicious. Alden Ehrenreich is a police officer who has a complicated relationship with Ms. Gandy. Abrams joins Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan, who round out the main cast, and Cregger teases that some names have been excluded from the casting announcement.
To add to the intrigue of the film, check out the website MaybrookMissing.com, created by Warner Bros., that features fictional news set within the movie. One story details information about the missing children, while another tells of a woman who escaped a rental property in Detroit where a "network of tunnels" was discovered. The woman was none other than Tess Marshall, a character featured in Cregger's Barbarian movie. Are the two films connected? Cregger states, "I don't want to definitively say any way or the other."
Below are the first look images of Weapons shared by EW.
Austin Abrams - other roles
In seasons 5 and 6 of The Walking Dead, Abrams portrayed Ron Anderson, a resident of Alexandria. He is the son of Pete (Corey Brill) and Jessie (Alexandra Breckinridge) and is the older brother of Sam (Major Dodson). Ron was killed by Michonne (Dania Gurira) after pulling a gun on Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and shooting Carl (Chandler Riggs).
He and Midori Francis co-led the Netflix rom-com Dash & Lily, which is based on Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's YA novel. Abrams is known for his roles in The Line, Do Revenge, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and more.
Deadline recently reported that Abrams will star in Cregger's 2026 Resident Evil reboot.
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