The First Teaser for ‘The Bride!’ Is Monstrously Intriguing

Step aside, Poor Things, and take Joker: Folie à Deux with you when you go: the first teaser trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! is here. Anyone who was wondering whether the world has enough bandwidth for two Frankenstein movies in the span of a few months can breathe easy; The Bride! looks like it has an entirely different, far more chaotic energy than what Guillermo del Toro‘s got cooking.

The Bride! has been touted as a musical, but there’s just a small hint of that in this teaser. Instead, it leans heavily into what looks to be a wild romance between Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) and his newly revived bride (Jessie Buckley):

It’s billed as a “bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories,” and here’s the official description:

“A lonely Frankenstein (Bale) travels to 1930s Chicago to ask groundbreaking scientist Dr. Euphronious (Annette Bening) to create a companion for him. The two revive a murdered young woman and the Bride (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!”

The rest of the cast includes Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz; Maggie Gyllenhaal directs and also wrote the screenplay. The Bride! arrives March 6, 2026.

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