It’s been a great time to be a Pedro Pascal fan as of late. So far in 2023, not only did Disney+ subscribers get to see him back in action as The Mandalorian’s title character for its third season, he also finally appeared as Joel Miller in the HBO series The Last of Us, which will be returning for a second season. In the meantime though, Pascal is jumping from small screen scares to big screen horror, as he’s signed onto an upcoming horror movie being helmed by a hyped director.
Following the success of Barbarian, one of 2022’s best horror movies, director Zach Cregger is now putting together Weapons, for which he scored a big payday to make for New Line Cinema back in January. THR has now heard that Pedro Pascal has signed on to lead Weapons, though no details about who he’s playing were revealed. As with Barbarian, Cregger is both writing and directing this upcoming movie, which is described as “an interrelated, multistory horror epic that tonally is in the vein” of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia.
