The Bride! teaser: Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale star in gothic crime romance

Maggie Gyllenhaal has unveiled the primary take a look at her second characteristic movie, The Bride!, with a teaser trailer that reimagines Mary Shelley’s gothic basic by way of the lens of a Nineteen Thirties outlaw love story.

The movie stars Christian Bale as a lonely Frankenstein in Depression-era Chicago, who enlists Dr. Euphronios to carry him a companion. Their experiment revives a murdered younger lady, performed by Jessie Buckley, who emerges because the fiery, platinum-haired bride.

The trailer hints at a punk-rock vitality and a tragic love story with echoes of Bonnie and Clyde and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart. Buckley’s bride companions with Bale’s creature in a bloody rise up in opposition to a world that rejects them.

The Bride! boasts an ensemble solid that features Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz. Gyllenhaal wrote and directed the movie, and likewise produced alongside Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler, and Osnat Handelsman Keren. Warner Bros. will launch the movie in theaters and on IMAX screens in North America on March 6, 2026, following a world rollout starting March 4.

Originally developed as a Netflix challenge, the manufacturing in the end moved to Warner Bros., positioning it as a significant theatrical occasion. The movie’s launch will arrive simply months after Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein adaptation, which hits theaters in October 2025 earlier than streaming on Netflix.

The Bride! follows Gyllenhaal’s acclaimed directorial debut The Lost Daughter