The Bride! won’t just reunite a lonely Frankenstein’s monster with his bride, but it marks the first time writer/director Maggie Gyllenhaal has worked with her brother since Donnie Darko.
Gyllenhaal’s punk reimagining releases in theaters and IMAX on March 6 via Warner Bros.
In the upcoming film, “A lonely Frankenstein (Christian Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (five-time Oscar nominee Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman, and The Bride (Jessie Buckley) is born. What ensues is beyond what either of them imagined: Murder! Possession! A wild and radical cultural movement! And outlaw lovers in a wild and combustible romance!”
When speaking to the press for the trailer launch, Gyllenhaal teased more about Jake Gyllenhaal‘s role in the film.
“With my brother, I will say he was one of the very, very last people I asked,” the filmmaker said. “He plays a character who is a matinee idol in movies who is, so in order to create those old movies that he’s in that are sometimes within the movie, it was like a lot of work for him. I asked him at the very last minute because I wanted to make sure it was right for our relationship. I spent a lot of time thinking about it, and I came to realize, no, it absolutely was.”
The last time she worked with her brother on a feature production was back in 2001.
Gyllenhaal notes, “I haven’t worked with him since Donnie Darko, which I was 20 or something. And it was such a pleasure working with my brother. I would find myself laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my face. I loved it. I loved it. It is true for all my actors, but of course, there’s a special something with my own brother.”
In Richard Kelly‘s cult classic, Jake Gyllenhaal starred as the title character Donnie Darko, with Maggie Gyllenhaal playing older sister Elizabeth Darko.
That makes The Bride! a family affair; the director’s real-life spouse, Peter Sarsgaard, also stars.
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