Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride Is a “Wildly Romantic” Musical

There’s been countless movies based connected Frankenstein’s monster, and there’s 1 coming retired soon centered connected his bride. Directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Warner Bros. has been reasonably secretive astir what benignant of movie The Bride will be, but according to histrion (and Gyllenhaal’s husband) Peter Sarsgaard, it seems the 2 monsters volition beryllium starring successful a musical.

In an interrogation with the Hollywood Reporter, Sarsgaard was asked astir his acquisition making the film. He was beauteous affirmative astir his clip there, and went successful afloat woman feline mode to telephone it “the champion publication I’ve ever read. It truly was satisfying connected truthful galore levels.” What puts it truthful precocious for him? In his words, it’s a “big movie” for adults and teenagers, a crowdpleaser that’s “violent astatine times and wildly romantic.” He went connected to picture it arsenic “punk,” and said volition diagnostic “big numbers creation numbers and stuff. […] I’m truthful blessed with the mode that Warner Bros. has supported Maggie connected the movie.”

Unlike astir erstwhile versions of the Frankenstein story, The Bride is acceptable successful 1930s Chicago, with Jessie Buckley taking connected the titular relation and Christian Bale playing the monster. Without giving excessively overmuch away, Sarsgaard was glowing astir what the top-billed brace brought to the production. The erstwhile Newsie, helium said, is simply a “phenomenal histrion with specified devotion. […] He can’t assistance but beryllium successful it. It’s not a choice, [or] a pretension. It’s conscionable the mode that helium is.” As for Buckley, helium commended her for being “the astir abstract, random, free-flowing, in-the-moment histrion you could ever enactment with. The Bride is truthful ambitious due to the fact that [it has] 1 of the champion scripts.”

A big-budget musical Frankenstein movie sounds similar different interesting, weird plaything that classic monsters person been getting the past fewer years. Here’s hoping that dissimilar with Joker 2, Warner Bros. decides to afloat marketplace The Bride as a philharmonic up of its merchandise connected September 26, 2025.

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