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 […]
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 a family affair; the director’s real-life spouse, , also stars.
