The Bride of Frankenstein gets to tell her own punk rock story in the new trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride!, a fresh take on the classic horror story.
The iconoclastic take on the classic horror story hits theaters and IMAX on March 6 via Warner Bros.
It was James Whale‘s classic and Elsa Lanchester‘s iconic portrayal that sparked Gyllenhaal’s interest in reimagining the tale, the filmmaker explained at a press conference ahead of the trailer’s debut, below. But with one caveat: the Bride would be the main character this time.
Moreover, Gyllenhaal’s punk rock vision of Frankenstein and his Bride will turn the lovers into outlaws in a vision of 1930s Chicago.
The style comparisons to Bonne and Clyde are by design, per the director. “I was interested in subverting a classic movie style. So yes, Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, and even Metropolis. And I think about a movie like Wild at Heart that does subvert those classic movie things in a David Lynch way, which is different than my way.”
The trailer gives a closer look at Jessie Buckley‘s Bride and her resurrection, but Gyllenhaal provides even more insight into her character. “The Bride comes back to life not knowing who she is and without any point of reference, without any compass to figure out who she is. So what does she need? What is her agenda? Part of it is just to figure out who she is now. There have been so many movies, so much literature, so much written, made, and thought about with men in that position. Who am I? Who am I, really? And so that’s another real motivation for her, is who am I?”
The Bride! is, ultimately, a love story, with Christian Bale playing the Bride’s lover, Frankenstein. Gyllenhaal revealed that while Frankenstein’s loneliness from the source novel holds true, Bale’s version will be drastically different.
“I realized Frankenstein’s so lonely, and we hint at this a little bit in the trailer, he doesn’t have anyone to talk to, and his primary relationship, before we meet him, is with a movie star. Because a movie star is someone you can imagine you have a relationship with, and they don’t know you at all. Also, Frankenstein, whose face is so scary and whom people run screaming when they see him, he’s safe in the dark,” Gyllenhaal told the press. She also shared that Bale sent her videos and images of Sid Vicious as a reference point, embracing the film’s punk spirit.
“I really pulled from the book in some ways, in that Frank in the book is like, he’s so feeling, he’s so vulnerable,” she added. “He’s so full of need and hunger, and he’s also so smart. I mean, Frankenstein in the book just hangs out in a barn and listens to people and learns French. That’s hard to do. And so I needed somebody with all of those characteristics, and also tough. Also, he does some fucked up stuff, this monster, as monsters do. As I would say, we all do. So I needed someone who could hold all of that, the same thing, a massive aspect of, and to be able to hold the monstrous in a way that lets us look at it and go, yeah, okay, I don’t bash people’s heads in personally, but there’s parts of me that have that kind of rage.”
Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Oscar winner Penélope Cruz also star in The Bride!
Watch the trailer now.
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