{"id":160532,"date":"2025-08-14T15:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/back-off-hollywood-why-a-prequel-to-the-box-office-hit-of-2025-weapons-is-a-terrible-idea\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T15:49:03","slug":"back-off-hollywood-why-a-prequel-to-the-box-office-hit-of-2025-weapons-is-a-terrible-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/back-off-hollywood-why-a-prequel-to-the-box-office-hit-of-2025-weapons-is-a-terrible-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Back off, Hollywood: Why a prequel to the box office hit of 2025 \u2018Weapons\u2019 is a terrible idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s smashed the box office. It&#8217;s earned rave reviews. And now, like clockwork, studios have sniffed out the buzz and are looking for a follow up. In the case of Zach Cregger&#8217;s &#8216;Weapons&#8217;, a prequel. Here&#8217;s why this is a terrible idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/08\/14\/back-off-hollywood-why-a-prequel-to-the-box-office-hit-of-2025-weapons-is-a-terrible-idea\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s smashed the box office. It&#8217;s earned rave reviews. And now, like clockwork, studios have sniffed out the buzz and are looking for a follow up. In the case of Zach Cregger&#8217;s &#8216;Weapons&#8217;, a prequel. Here&#8217;s why this is a terrible idea. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":160533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}