Maggie Gyllenhaal's audacious and bloody 'The Bride!' is a genre-defying spectacle that's bursting with personality and full of things the filmmaker loves. It's an epic and honest film that pushes boundaries and challenges conventions. The movie's origin story began with a curiosity about an image of Elsa Lanchester's 'Bride of Frankenstein' on a tattoo, which evolved through Gyllenhaal's wild imagination into one of the year's most electric films. The film stars Jessie Buckley, who plays the Bride, an omniscient Mary Shelley, a 1930s woman entrenched in a world of gangsters, and a reanimated corpse brought back to life against her will. The film is an ambitious studio production with major stars, including Christian Bale, Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Peter Sarsgaard, and a production budget of over $80 million. It's a go-for-broke movie that's more than just having fun; it's about exhausting oneself in the most joyful way possible because you feel like this might be the end. Maggie Gyllenhaal made it to be seen on a big screen, with a big crowd, and she's excited to see how the film affects people's hearts and minds. The film arrives in theaters at a time of profound transition in the industry, as Warner Bros., one of the last big studios supporting original ideas and bold filmmaking, faces new ownership under Paramount. The film's London premiere last week felt like the death throes of theatrical release movies, but Gyllenhaal is hopeful that the film will have an impact on audiences.
