A few years in the past, phrase leaked out that Maggie Gyllenhaal was set to put in writing and direct a movie known as The Bride!, a brand new tackle the idea of the 1935 basic The Bride of Frankenstein (watch it HERE). As soon as considered arrange on the Netflix streaming service, this one is definitely occurring at Warner Bros., and the studio has set the movie for a theatrical launch on March 6, 2026. That’s an extended wait than initially anticipated, because the film had beforehand been scheduled for an October 2025 launch – and through an interview with Deadline, solid member Peter Sarsgaard (who additionally occurs to be married to Gyllenhaal) mentioned that he expects the film to be controversial when it does make its method out into the world.
Gyllenhaal has assembled a robust solid for the movie that features, along with Sarsgaard, Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening, Julianne Hough, John Magaro, Jeannie Berlin, and her brother Jake Gyllenhaal, with Jessie Buckley as The Bride and Christian Bale as Frankenstein’s Monster. The Bride! has the next synopsis: A lonely Frankenstein travels to Thirties Chicago to hunt the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in making a companion for himself. The 2 reinvigorate a murdered younger girl and the Bride is born. She is past what both of them meant, igniting a flamable romance, the eye of the police and a wild and radical social motion.
This isn’t a Common challenge, nevertheless it wouldn’t be the primary Bride of Frankenstein remake to be made by a unique firm. In 1985, Columbia Photos introduced us one other film merely known 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 identical challenge known as Bride for A24 and Apple, however that also hasn’t made it into manufacturing.
Sarsgaard advised Deadline, “I’m going to say that it’s going to be controversial. I mean, it’s very punk. It’s very radical in some ways, and the main characters in it are very imperfect. It’s also a love story, basically. It’s about the monster in all of us.” He denied the rumors that the film is a musical, however did admit that there are some dance routines.
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