Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride! brings a radical twist to Frankenstein this March

The Bride! arrives in UK and Irish cinemas on 6ᵗʰ March 2026, marking Maggie Gyllenhaal’s highly anticipated follow-up to her Oscar-nominated debut The Lost Daughter.

Starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, the film reimagines the Frankenstein legend through a bold, 1930s Chicago lens. Bale plays a lonely Frankenstein who enlists pioneering scientist Dr Euphronious (Annette Bening) to create him a companion. When a murdered young woman is resurrected as the Bride (Buckley), the experiment spirals into obsession, violence and the spark of a wider cultural upheaval.

Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal and Penélope Cruz round out the ensemble, while Gyllenhaal directs from her own screenplay and produces alongside Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren.

Behind the camera, she’s joined by cinematographer Lawrence Sher, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and costume designer Sandy Powell, signalling a visually striking and musically distinctive take on the gothic classic.

Positioned as an iconoclastic reinterpretation rather than a traditional monster movie, The Bride! promises romance, revolt and reinvention when it opens in cinemas on 6ᵗʰ March 2026.

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The Bride! is released nationwide on 6^th March 2026.

Watch the trailer for The Bride! here: