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  1. contrast (structure contrast): Resident Evil → Weapons. Weapons chopped the story across perspectives; Resident Evil is linear through one guy's eyes, but both make you want to recap the beats.
    “This movie is as linear as they come.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (near-miss production): Jordan Peele → Weapons. Peele reportedly wanted to produce Weapons or Barbarian and changed management companies when he did not.
    “Peel wanted to produce, was it weapons or barbarian?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:14:53 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (respectability): Resident Evil → Weapons. Weapons made a witch-flesh-tearing movie respectable; Resident Evil may do the same for movies like it.
    “this is like gonna kind of make movies like this respectable.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:21:15 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (quality comp): Obsession → Weapons. Both drew discourse but ended up with a quality force field around them.
    “It is very similar to weapons where like, weapons did have a lot of discourse, but for the most part, people were like, well, that movie is good.”
    The Big Picture · The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman! · 0:11:53 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  5. people (director follow-up): Barbarian → Weapons. Sean says Barbarian made Zach Cregger a filmmaker to follow, which paid off with Weapons.
    “that really just came to fruition with weapons and the success that Zach Kreiger had with that movie.”
    The Big Picture · The 2022 Movie Draft · 1:00:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  6. people (casting): Weapons → Josh Brolin. Cregger had just worked with Brolin, a Coens favorite, on Weapons.
    “You had just worked with Josh Brolin, of course, in weapons.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:14:06 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (true-story opening): Weapons → Fargo. Zach says Weapons opens with a 'this is a true story' line, in the manner of Fargo's title card.
    “In weapons, the 1st line of the movie is this is a true story.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 0:48:07 · Zach Cregger (0.90 sure it was them)
  8. people (casting): Weapons → Alden Ehrenreich. Alden (surname not said) plays a cop in Weapons.
    “There's a cop in weapons, right? Alden's playing a cop.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 2:28:56 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. unmapped (cops compared): Weapons → Fargo. Weapons' cop is less nice than Marge; Zach likes a fucked-up cop (cf. Bad Lieutenant).
    “you know, I like a fucked up cop.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Fargo with Zach Cregger · 2:29:10 · Zach Cregger (0.80 sure it was them)