LMGI COMPASS
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Summer 2026
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Weapons
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
An ex-revolutionary living off-the-grid among the redwoods
of Eureka, California, is forced back into action when his
past comes roaring back and his daughter needs rescuing.
Downtown Sacramento stages the bank robberies and major
car chases, its brutalist landmarks lending a cold institutional
weight, while the Folsom Ranch community and East
Sacramento fill out his world, with El Paso, Texas, standing in
for downtown Eureka. In California, the Otay Mesa Detention
Center, La Purísima Mission State Historic Park, and the Texas
Dip in Borrego Springs hold the story in spaces that feel both
expansive and deeply human. From opening scenes at the
border wall to a climactic desert chase through Anza-Borrego
Desert State Park, his journey from hiding to reckoning is
tracked through a modern America bristling with anxiety, dark
humor and the ghosts of old rebellions.
WEAPONS
Spanning cities and counties throughout Georgia, real-life
communities are assembled into the fictional suburban town
of Maybrook, Pennsylvania—where a group of children from
the same class vanish simultaneously overnight. The town's
bright, familiar streets shift into something deeply sinister
in this modern retelling of Hansel and Gretel, turning quiet
neighborhoods, empty school corridors, wooded backroads
and dimly lit community spaces into an unsettling landscape
charged with dread and mystery—making the supernatural feel
chillingly close to home.
One Battle After Another
"Maybrook was a fictional town filmed mostly in Tucker, Georgia, but also the City of Covington,
City of Griffin, Castleberry Hills neighborhood in Atlanta and unincorporated Dekalb County. The
town of Maybrook needed to feel like small-town Americana/Main Street USA. Not a fancy place,
but a nice place to grow up. The exterior seings were supposed to be mostly bright and
upliing to contrast with the dark and evil moments of the story."
-Scout/KALM Ma Bender, Weapons
"Locations throughout the film advance the storyline—from the rooops in El Paso
for the chase sequence to the River of Hills driving sequence in the climax. They
build energy and the ominous and impending danger."
-KALM Eric Crocombe/LMGI, One Bale Aer Another
