Pedro Pascal Almost Replaces Josh Brolin In Weapons, This Is What The Director Says

Josh Brolin (Warner Bros)

JAKARTA - Director Zach Cregger recounted his latest film, Weapons, which took a long road until it was released this year. He revealed the fact that the character played by Josh Brolin was originally played by Pedro Pascal.

He explained that initially the actors in the film Weapons were Pedro Pascal, Renate Reinsve, Brian Tyree Henry, and Austin Abrams. In the midst of the confirmation, the strike in Hollywood began which had an impact on the production of Weapons.

Now, the film Weapons stars Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Cary Christopher, Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Amy Madegan and Austin Abrams as the only ones not out of production.

"I have a different cast list for this film and we went on strike and then Pedro Pascal's schedule caused us to experience chaos. We had to overhaul the whole cast," Zach Cregger told Entertainment Weekly.

"This is what happened, right? The strike put us on hold and when you experience it, other people's schedules start to get affected and you return to zero," he said.

Cregger has no grudge against Pascal or anyone because the strike did affect the film and he felt his struggle had to start from scratch.

"I have no grudge against anyone. We continue to experience delays, such as domino effects so I have to repeat it again," Zach Cregger's story.

Weapons set a scene in the middle of the night that made the public dumbfounded. At 02.17 a.m., 17 children disappeared from a city. All the children who disappeared had something in common, namely they were third grade students in Justine Gandy's (July Garner) class.

Josh Brolin replaces Pedro Pascal after Pascal chose to focus on filming Fantastic Four: The First Steps.

Pedro Pascal also starred and promoted his latest film in the near future, starting from Materialists with Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans in June, then Eddington with Joaquin Phoenix.