‘The Bride’ Trailer: Maggie Gyllenhaal Unveils Her Punk Rock Take on One of Cinema’s Misunderstood Monsters

By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy . We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 2025 was the year of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” but 2026 is all about The Bride . Maggie Gyllenhaal ‘s sophomore directorial effort , which reimagines “The Bride of Frankenstein” with a punk rock twist and an A-list cast that includes Jessie Buckley as the eponymous Bride and Christian Bale as Frankenstein’s monster, was always destined to be one of the most anticipated films of the year . Then factor in an ensemble including Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz, and the fact that Warner Bros. seems to be on an unstoppable winning streak, and suddenly you have a can’t-miss movie event on your hands. During a virtual press conference on Tuesday, January 13, Gyllenhaal explained how her vision for the film stemmed from the visceral impact that star Elsa Lanchester left on audiences in the 1935 film “The Bride of Frankenstein” despite having a relatively small amount of screen time. “Elsa Lanchester, the original Bride of Frankenstein, just has this impact. The way she looks. ... Something about her is formidable. And then I watched the movie, which I hadn’t seen, and I realized she doesn’t speak,” Gyllenhaal said. “What I thought was really interesting was here’s this movie called The Bride of Frankenstein, which is really not in any way about The Bride of Frankenstein, and yet Elsa Lanchester makes this impact, even though she’s in the movie for three minutes and doesn’t speak. Why? Well, because she’s kinda badass.” The director also explained that her film attempts to fill some of the narrative gaps in the original “Bride of Frankenstein,” namely what she sees as a lack of agency for the titular character. “In many iterations, Frankenstein is a monster of course, who does monstrous, awful things, but he’s also beautiful, human, kind and so lonely. So his ask for a mate, which is part of the book, which is part of the mythology, is really understandable,” she said. “But at the same time, what about the mate? He’s asking to have someone brought back from the dead to be his girlfriend. Well, what about her? And that’s what this movie, I think, really gets into. What if she comes back and she has her own needs and her own agenda and her own wants and her own terrors.” Warner Bros. will release “The Bride” in theaters on Friday, March 6. Watch the film’s newest trailer below. By providing your information, you agree to our Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy . We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

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