We are getting a brand-new Bride of Frankenstein adaptation from Maggie Gyllenhaal. However, this edition is a little more punk rock than the previous Frankenstein projects we have seen in the past. Sorry, Guillermo del Toro, sometimes you just have to have fun.
Set in 1930’s Chicago, The Bride! centers around a love story as a mad scientist creates a companion for Frankenstein. However, after bringing the murdered woman back to life, she sparks a change in the city and within Frankenstein.
Gyllenhaal gave a press conference before the trailer release and explained that the classic James Whale’s story that inspired The Bride!. However, there will be two main changes to the original story. First, the primary focus of the film will be the bride of Frankenstein. Also, to ramp up the action, the two lovers will go on the run as outlaws.
“The Bride comes back to life not knowing who she is and without any point of reference, without any compass to figure out who she is. So what does she need? What is her agenda? Part of it is just to figure out who she is now. There have been so many movies, so much literature, so much written, made, and thought about with men in that position. Who am I? Who am I, really? And so that’s another real motivation for her, is who am I?”
“I realized Frankenstein’s so lonely, and we hint at this a little bit in the trailer, he doesn’t have anyone to talk to, and his primary relationship, before we meet him, is with a movie star. Because a movie star is someone you can imagine you have a relationship with, and they don’t know you at all. Also, Frankenstein, whose face is so scary and whom people run screaming when they see him, he’s safe in the dark,” Gyllenhaal stated.
“I really pulled from the book in some ways, in that Frank in the book is like, he’s so feeling, he’s so vulnerable,” she added. “He’s so full of need and hunger, and he’s also so smart. I mean, Frankenstein in the book just hangs out in a barn and listens to people and learns French. That’s hard to do. And so I needed somebody with all of those characteristics, and also tough. Also, he does some fucked up stuff, this monster, as monsters do. As I would say, we all do. So I needed someone who could hold all of that, the same thing, a massive aspect of, and to be able to hold the monstrous in a way that lets us look at it and go, yeah, okay, I don’t bash people’s heads in personally, but there’s parts of me that have that kind of rage.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) wrote and directed the project. The Bride! features performances from Jake Gyllenhaal (Nightcrawler), Jessie Buckley (I’m Thinking of Ending Things), and Christian Bale (The Machinist). The film is set to release in theaters and IMAX on March 6th.
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