The Bride! solid member John Magaro says Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein film is wild experience and compares it to some classics
A couple of yr and a half in the past, phrase leaked out that Maggie Gyllenhaal was set to write down and direct a movie referred to as The Bride!, a brand new tackle the idea of the 1935 traditional The Bride of Frankenstein (watch it HERE). As soon as considered arrange on the Netflix streaming service, this one is definitely taking place at Warner Bros., and the studio has set the movie for a theatrical launch, IMAX screens included, on October 3, 2025. Gyllenhaal has assembled a powerful solid for the movie that features Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, Julianne Hough, John Magaro, Jeannie Berlin, and her brother Jake Gyllenhaal, with Jessie Buckley as The Bride and Christian Bale as Frankenstein’s Monster. Magaro is at present doing press for the movie September 5, the place he shares the display with Sarsgaard, and he instructed The Hollywood Reporter that The Bride! is wild, enjoyable, and bonkers – and in addition in contrast it to some traditional movies.
The Bride! has the next synopsis: A lonely Frankenstein travels to Nineteen Thirties Chicago to hunt the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in making a companion for himself. The 2 reinvigorate a murdered younger lady and the Bride is born. She is past what both of them supposed, igniting a flamable romance, the eye of the police and a wild and radical social motion.
This isn’t a Common venture, but it surely wouldn’t be the primary Bride of Frankenstein remake to be made by a unique firm. In 1985, Columbia Footage introduced us one other film merely referred to as The Bride, which starred Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein, Jennifer Beals as Eva (the bride) and Clancy Brown as Viktor (the monster). Just a few years in the past, it was introduced that Scarlett Johansson was going to star in an analogous venture referred to as Bride for A24 and Apple, however that also hasn’t made it into manufacturing.
Magaro instructed The Hollywood Reporter, “Peter [Sarsgaard] was sort sufficient to suggest me to his spouse [Maggie Gyllenhaal] for The Bride!, so I had a very good time taking pictures it final spring. It’s a wild film. It’s very totally different than The Misplaced Daughter, Maggie’s earlier movie that she directed. It’s like a mixture of a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film, Younger Frankenstein, Frankenstein, Bonnie and Clyde, and Badlands. It’s only a wild, enjoyable experience, and on the helm is Christian Bale and the wonderful Jessie Buckley. It’s one thing that individuals haven’t seen earlier than, and I’m actually excited to get it in entrance of an viewers. It’s bonkers.“
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