Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sophomore outing, “The Bride!” opens in the shadowy afterlife of “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, played by recent Oscar-winner Jesse Buckley, who is quite bitter about the way ...

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It’s alive, but it’s not exactly showing signs of life. Set in the 1930s, “The Bride!” follows a very lonely Frankenstein’s monster (Christian Bale) and his undead love interest (Jessie Buckley) as ...

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With a few minutes on screen and no dialogue, the Bride leaves a lot off the table, something that inspired The Bride! director Maggie Gyllenhaal when she watched the film and tore through Shelley's ...

Polina Zelmanova receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to support the research undertaken as part of her PhD.. Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was ...

About the time Christian Bale’s Frankenstein and Jessie Buckley’s Bride crash an A-list party in 1930s New York and jump-start a full-on musical number set to “Puttin’ on the Ritz,” it is clear that ...

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Maggie Gyllenhaal, left, and Jessie Buckley poses ...

In some alternate universe, there’s probably a simpler, more straightforward version of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein spin-off movie The Bride! that’s ...

At just 18, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her first and most famous novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 208 years later, Shelley's story is still captivating us, inspiring hundreds of ...

The global premiere of The Bride! took place at Cineworld Leicester Square in London, England, with the film’s stars coming out to celebrate. Directed and written by Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on Mary ...