There’s something undeniably thrilling about watching a filmmaker swing this hard. From Maggie Gyllenhaal – whose directorial debut The Lost Daughter announced a fierce and precise new voice – The Bride! arrives as a bold, operatic reimagining of Mary Shelley’s mythos. On paper, it’s intoxicating: a 1930s Chicago-set fever dream starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale,…
Maggie Gyllenhaal isn’t interested in playing it safe. At the global trailer launch for The Bride!, the writer-director-producer spoke with infectious passion about her radical reimagining of one of cinema’s most iconic monsters, revealing a film that’s punk, romantic, mythic, deeply personal, and unapologetically loud. Here’s everything we learned about The Bride! and the bold…
Guillermo has his Frankenstein. Gyllenhaal has her Bride. From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of The Lost Daughter) and starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley and Academy Award winner Christian Bale comes The Bride! A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories. A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to…
