That's it? That's the huge script that made every company shit themselves into a bidding war and every industry figure claiming it's the best script ever created in the modern age? A loose adaptation of Resident Evil 7?

Not seeing the overt RE7 inspiration aside from the bewitched puppet minions and at a stretch, the parasitical-fungus analogue weaponising its humans, but yeah, there was nothing particularly special about this one. Bit strange it caught so much attention for being what is at best a bog-standard rainy day goosebumps tale.

Timeline of Zach Cregger's Hollywood career
>Was part of a comedy troupe called The Whitest Kids U' Know
>Together with his best friend Trevor Moore, a member of the same troupe, he wrote and directed a sex comedy film called Miss March in 2009 and it flopped badly ($6 million budget, less than $5 million gross)
>The comedy troupe disbanded after their TV show ended in 2011
>Cregger's career nosedived
>He spent the next decade as a failing actor, only getting a handful of roles in short-lived sitcoms and tiny indie films that went straight to iTunes
>By 2020 he was essentially unemployed and reduced to one role in a short film
>Meanwhile Moore was always spouting conspiracy theories on social media and his comedy TV shows
>MKUltra, Project Monarch, Epstein, The Society of Janus, CIA and Bush Senior killing JFK, 9/11 being an inside job by the Bush family and Saudi Arabia to create "a new Pearl Harbor" etc.
>Cregger receives a $4.5 million budget for a horror film called Barbarian in April 2021
>The financier is Arnon Milchan, an Israeli billionaire who used to be an operative for Israel's secret intelligence organization LEKEM
>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arranged Milchan's permanent residency in the US
>Moore dies from blunt force head trauma in August 2021 after falling from his upstairs balcony
>Barbarian gets distributed by Disney and grosses a modest $45.4 million
>Cregger's script called Weapons ignites a bidding war, resulting in him getting $10 million to write/direct/produce the $38 million budgeted film
>Before Weapons comes out or is even screened anywhere, Cregger gets signed by Sony to write and direct a Resident Evil reboot
>His deal is $20 million + 20% first-dollar gross
>That puts his salary in the same tier with Christopher Nolan since Dunkirk (after The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception and Interstellar) and Peter Jackson for King Kong (after his LotR trilogy)
really gets the ol noggin joggin