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The trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride has just dropped, with equal parts pulp and sorrow, and an unrecognizable Christian Bale as Frankenstein's monster. The trailer opens with fractured visuals as we see a brutal accident that splinters a young woman's body. A quick cut montage follows, with a pounding soundtrack and more haunting visuals, all of it while Jessie Buckley's The Bride stays in focus, accompanied by Bale's Monster.
The trailer is a visual treat, as we see both the monster and his bride's romance, walking on the streets, creating havoc and being loud in love. Gyllenhaal described the film in an earlier presentation as "the punkest love that's ever existed," and the visuals make sure to embody that energy.
The American Psycho actor carries a disturbing, stitched together role as the Monster with prosthetics, hiding and making his face, and the design rewriting the monster into something punk and modern. His head is shorn, with his skin scarred and stitched, and his clothes tattered as he embodies the character. Bale is known for shapeshifting into distinct roles and disappearing into them, and Gyllenhaal's The Bride sees him do this perfectly and with ease.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride reimagines Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, with a different twist on the novel's antagonist, the creature known as Frankenstein's Monster. In the original literary text, the Monster asks Victor Frankenstein, the novel's protagonist and his creator, to create a companion for him, who is called Frankenstein's bride. Although Victor agrees at first, he later destroys his creation out of fear of the havoc their union would cause. This makes the monster bitter, and he seeks revenge from Victor as he kills his to-be wife.
In Gyllenhaal's version, Frankenstein is a lonely monster seeking a companion, and a doctor reanimates a murdered young woman as his bride, only for the new life to ignite an unpredictable romance and a radical social movement. The setup promises a blend of period detail, monstrous spectacle, and a fierce sensibility, with a story that gives the bride central stage and more agency rather than silence.
The cast for the film is led by Jessie Buckley as the Bride and Christian Bale as Frankenstein's monster. They are joined by Penelope Cruz, Annette Benning, Peter Sarsgaard, and a surprise appearance from Jake Gyllenhaal.
During CinemaCon's Warner Bros. presentation, the film made an appearance, where the director described the film as a fiery romance as she said,
"It's like Bonnie and Clyde and Wild at Heart and all those characters, but ours has petrol in its skin and we're holding a match to it."
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The film is all set to release on March 6, 2026, in the United States, moving past it's initial release date of October 2025 and September 2025.
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