Jessie Buckley’s murdered Bride of Frankenstein is taking again her new life with crime, romance, and chaos in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! later this 12 months.
Forward of its premiere on March 6, 2026 in IMAX, Warner Bros. has launched a brand-new trailer for The Bride!, which takes inspirations from the 1818 Frankenstein novel and 1935 Bride of Frankenstein movie whereas incorporating writer-director-producer Maggie Gyllenhaal’s unique story concepts. Specializing in Frankie’s (Christian Bale) plans to resurrect her and the Bride’s (Buckley) harmful new tackle life, the trailer additionally offers higher glimpses on the roles of solid members Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, and Jake Gyllenhaal:
The brand new footage reveals Bale’s Frankenstein working with Bening’s mad scientist, Dr. Euphronius, to carry a murdered girl again to life and turn out to be his bride. Frankenstein and the Bride then embark on a whirlwind romance that places them up in opposition to a detective (Peter Sarsgaard), a film star (Jake Gyllenhaal), and the broader public in Nineteen Thirties Chicago as they’re labeled “monsters.”
Nevertheless, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s model of those characters introduce important thematic modifications from previous iterations, underscored by Buckley’s character preferring to easily be known as “the Bride” fairly than “Bride of Frankenstein.” Based on Gyllenhaal herself in Warner Bros.’ The Bride! Trailer Q&A Digital Occasion attended by ScreenRant‘s Jordan Williams, the R-rated The Bride! explores the “formidible energy,” desires, terrors, and newfound company of the titular character after by no means even talking within the unique 1935 film.
Based on Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley’s iteration of the Bride character is “any person who, in her life, was not capable of get herself expressed earlier than she dies,” however comes again from the lifeless “as somebody with rather a lot to say.” As The Bride! trailer hints, Buckley’s character returns from the lifeless with out figuring out who she is, so a big driving power of her story surrounds addressing the query “Who am I?“
Maggie Gyllenhaal Reveals Why Jessie Buckley & Christian Bale Had been Good To Play The Bride & Frankenstein
Find any person to embody this newly impartial, extra chaotic model of the Bride, Gyllenhaal rapidly realized after writing the half that the “solely” one who might play her was Jessie Buckley. The pair had beforehand labored collectively on Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut The Misplaced Daughter, so the director was already conscious of the appearing and private attributes Buckley delivered to the desk that might make her the right match for the enduring monster character:
“I actually nonetheless do not know who else might have performed this half. I believe it is to do with [Buckley’s] knowledge in figuring out that each human being holds the entire spectrum of emotions, so fierce and highly effective. And proper to that’s the deepest vulnerability. So good, additionally completely irrational, attractive, and likewise generally ugly. All of it, put collectively, makes an individual. And I thnk that what’s so extraordinary about her as an actress is that she actually permits all of these issues to be part of the work. And so due to that, I believe it signifies that many, many individuals then can relate to what she’s doing. And the Bride, the half that I used to be asking her to play, wants all of that as a way to work.”
Gyllenhaal additionally elaborated on why Christian Bale, who the director notably starred with in Christopher Nolan’s The Darkish Knight, wasn’t simply the best casting for Frankenstein’s actor, but in addition was the best option to pair with Buckley. The Bride! writer-director defined that Buckley and Bale had a novel reference to qualities that make them each “sensible actors,” whereas the choice to solid Bale as Frank got here from a want to “dream massive” for this film:
“[Christian] and Jessie had such an actual deep and particular connection. That is the factor you possibly can’t anticipate, besides that I imagine that there are loads of excellent actors, and I believe there are a tiny handful of sensible ones, and people two are sensible ones… a part of the talent of being a superb actor is with the ability to stroll as much as somebody and hand them your coronary heart.
And Christian, pay attention, I simply dreamed massive, proper? I used to be like, ‘Okay, I wrote this half. I am simply going to ask whoever I need.’ What is the worst factor that occurs? They inform you no. Can I tolerate being advised no? Yeah, I believe I can. So I simply let my thoughts wander to ‘Who’s Frankenstein? Who’s my Frankenstein?’ My Frankenstein is, I actually pulled from the ebook in some methods, in that Frank is within the ebook is like, he is so feeling, he is so weak. He is so stuffed with want and starvation, and he is additionally so good. I imply Frankenstein within the ebook simply hangs out in a barn and listens to folks and learns French. That is exhausting to do. And so I wanted any person with all of these traits and likewise powerful. Additionally, he does some f***ed up stuff, this monster, as monsters do. And as, I’d say, all of us do. So I wanted somebody that would maintain all of that… and have the ability to maintain the monstrous in a method that lets us take a look at it and go, ‘Yeah, okay, I do not bash folks’s heads personally, however there’s elements of me which have that sort of rage.'”
Maggie Gyllenhaal Addresses Casting Her Brother & Husband In The Bride!
Along with discussing casting her two leads, Maggie Gyllenhaal dove into the explanations for bringing on a number of the different actors rounding out The Bride!‘s star-studded solid, together with her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, as a detective and her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, as a film star. The Gyllenhaal siblings hadn’t collaborated on a film collectively since 2001’s cult traditional sci-fi thriller Donnie Darko, through which they performed on-screen siblings, with Maggie initially having to weigh whether or not casting her brother can be the best factor for his or her relationship:
“Let’s discuss in regards to the folks I do know. My husband and my brother. I simply knew I wished [Peter Sarsgaard’s character] Wiles to be tremendous, tremendous scorching, so I needed to ask my very own husband [laughing]. No, I believe Wiles is a personality who you may see is each very… he is carried out some darkish issues and can be a hero. And I assumed Peter’s actually good at that.
And with my brother, I’ll say he was one of many very, final folks I requested. And he performs a personality who’s a matinée idol in motion pictures – so, as a way to create these previous motion pictures that he is in which are generally throughout the film, it was loads of work for him. And I requested him on the final minute as a result of I wished to verify it was proper for our relationship. And I spent loads of time eager about it, and I got here to appreciate, ‘No, it completely was.’ And I have not labored with him since Donnie Darko, which I used to be 20 or one thing. And it was such a pleasure working with my brother. I’d discover myself laughing so exhausting that tears have been streaming down my face. I cherished it. It’s true for all my actors, however, after all, there is a particular one thing with my very own brother.”
The director additionally addressed casting Penelope Cruz, noting that she’s “by no means seen her do something like this.” Based on Gyllenhaal, Cruz’s character is “generally in a screwball comedy and generally within the realest, most modern scenes… However there was an actual ease in placing that collectively and asking her.” Gyllenhaal famous it was the “identical factor” with Annette Bening, getting the Oscar nominee to play The Bride!‘s “iconoclastic, sensible, mad scientist” Dr. Euphronius.
Whereas many plot and character particulars are nonetheless underneath wraps earlier than The Bride! premieres in March, the anticipation is definitely rising as extra insights into Maggie Gyllenhaal’s punk, Bonnie and Clyde-inspired tackle Bride of Frankenstein are revealed.
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March 4, 2026
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Maggie Gyllenhaal