Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride’ Lifts Veil On First Footage At CinemaCon

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The $100 million feature take The Bride from Maggie Gyllenhaal showed off its first footage at CinemaCon on Tuesday, with the filmmaker and star Jessie Buckley in attendance.

Logline: In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein asks Dr. Euphronius to help create a companion. They give life to a murdered woman as The Bride, sparking romance, police interest and radical social change.

A small taste of the steampunk horror-tinged film showed Buckley’s Bride taking a fatal fall that “wasn’t any accident.” On a lab table with metal cables coming out of her body she comes back to life, then meets Christian Bale’s monster who intones, “Til death do us part.” Buckley said Gyllenhaal’s script had “an electrical language that I’d never read or seen cinematically.” She called the relationship between the monster and The Bride “the punkest love that’s ever existed.

It’s like Bonnie and Clyde and Wild at Heart… I think our one has some petrol in its skin and we’re holding a match beside it.” Gyllenhaal explained that after making The Last Daughter, she was looking for “something pop and big and I wanted it to be radical at the same time.