{"id":185978,"date":"2025-08-10T05:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/weapons-director-zach-cregger-reveals-advice-he-received-from-filmmaker-david-fincher-how-he-helped-during-production\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T05:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T05:37:33","slug":"weapons-director-zach-cregger-reveals-advice-he-received-from-filmmaker-david-fincher-how-he-helped-during-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/weapons-director-zach-cregger-reveals-advice-he-received-from-filmmaker-david-fincher-how-he-helped-during-production\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Weapons\u2019 Director Zach Cregger Reveals Advice He Received From Filmmaker David Fincher, How He Helped During Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/zach-cregger\/\" title=\"Zach Cregger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Zach Cregger<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about his relationship with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/david-fincher\/\" title=\"David Fincher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Fincher<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The 44-year-old comedian and actor stepped behind-the-scenes for the new horror movie <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/weapons\/\" title=\"Weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Weapons<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, which marks his second time directing. <\/p>\n<p>In a new interview, <strong>Zach <\/strong>opened about getting advice from fellow filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/david-fincher\/\" title=\"David Fincher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>David Fincher<\/strong><\/a> and why he thanked him in the movie\u2019s credits. <\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2132605\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s just a very helpful guy. He was available to me during prep, and then he was very available during the post process,\u201d <strong>Zach<\/strong> told <em>Variety<\/em>. \u201cHe watched the movie and had a lot of really constructive thoughts and gave me a ton of ideas. He helped me learn more about the editing process and how to think about it in a new way that wasn\u2019t available to me when I was making <em>Barbarian<\/em>. So he just opened my mind up a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are things I thought I had to just settle for. I thought, \u2018Well, that\u2019s the take I have. That\u2019s the best take. And it\u2019s not perfect, but by God, nothing is.\u2019 <strong>Dave<\/strong>\u2019s attitude is, \u2018It can always be better, and there are a lot of tools that you have at your disposal that you might not be thinking about.\u2019\u201d <strong>Zach <\/strong>added.\u201dSo, from reframing to stabilization to ADR to all sorts of things, it was really cool. Honestly, I learned a lot about how to prep, what lenses to use. I shot this mostly anamorphic, and I didn\u2019t quite respect how limiting anamorphic is in the post process. So stuff like that, technical stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Weapons<\/em>, which stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/julia-garner\/\" title=\"Julia Garner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Julia Garner<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/josh-brolin\/\" title=\"Josh Brolin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Josh Brolin<\/strong><\/a>, just hit theaters this weekend &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/04\/29\/weapons-trailer-is-as-creepy-as-youd-expect-watch-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> watch the trailer<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/08\/05\/weapons-director-confirms-three-major-stars-dropped-out-of-the-movie-including-pedro-pascal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which stars dropped out of starring<\/a> in <em>Weapons<\/em>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/08\/10\/weapons-director-zach-cregger-reveals-advice-he-received-from-filmmaker-david-fincher-how-he-helped-during-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Cregger is opening up about his relationship with David Fincher! The 44-year-old comedian and actor stepped behind-the-scenes for the new horror movie Weapons, which marks his second time directing. In a new interview, Zach opened about getting advice from fellow filmmaker David Fincher and why he thanked him in the movie\u2019s credits. Keep reading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}