It’s no secret that everyone wanted to be a part of Weapons; Jordan Peele coincidentally parted ways with his long-time managers shortly after Monkeypaw Productions lost the auction to produce the movie to New Line Cinema — almost as big of a coincidence as a bunch of children from the same classroom disappearing at the same time. One big name that was unexpectedly attached to Weapons was David Fincher, who was thanked at the end of the credits despite seemingly not being involved with the movie. Director Zach Cregger explained that Fincher was “a very helpful guy” during the pre and post-production process for the film. “He 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’t available to me when I was making Barbarian. So he just opened my mind up a lot,” Cregger told Variety. Cregger also shared how Fincher taught him that he didn’t have to “settle” if something wasn’t coming out the way he had hoped; there was always something you could do or edit to get the shot you wanted. He concluded, “Dave’s attitude is, ‘It can always be better, and there are a lot of tools that you have at your disposal that you might not be thinking about.’”
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