“This is a roller coaster ride of a movie,” says Christian Bale in a featurette for “The Bride.” “It’s monstrous, it’s human, it’s intimate but it’s epic, all at the same time.” In the film, directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the Academy Award winner plays Frankenstein, a lonely monster who 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 is born.
Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in “The Bride”
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Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley, who won this year’s Actor, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Awards for Best Actress for her performance in “Hamnet,” adds of “The Bride”: “It’s provocative, and it’s punk.”
Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley with director Maggie Gyllenhaal on the set of “The Bride”
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“It’s naughtier, wilder, more dangerous,” teases Gyllenhaal.
Besides Buckley, Bale and Bening, the film also stars Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal and Penélope Cruz.
Experience a bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories and watch “The Bride!” now showing only in cinemas. #TheBrideMovie
From Maggie Gyllenhaal (Academy Award-nominated writer/director of “The Lost Daughter”) and starring Academy Award nominee Jessie Buckley and Academy Award winner Christian Bale comes THE BRIDE! A bold, iconoclastic take on one of the world’s most compelling stories.
A lonely Frankenstein (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 (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 film stars Buckley, Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, with Bening, Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal, and Oscar winner Penélope Cruz. Maggie Gyllenhaal directs from her own screenplay and produces alongside Oscar nominee Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren. The executive producers are Carla Raij, David Webb and Courtney Kivowitz.
Gyllenhaal is supported behind the camera by a team of award-winning film artisans, including director of photography Lawrence Sher, production designer Karen Murphy, editor Dylan Tichenor, music supervisor Randall Poster, composer Hildur Gudnadóttir and costume designer Sandy Powell.
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents A First Love Films / In The Current Company Production, A Maggie Gyllenhaal Film: THE BRIDE!. The film will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, only in theaters and IMAX in North America on March 6, 2026, and internationally beginning 4 March 2026. #TheBrideMovie
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