Let’s Hear It For “The Bride!”

Directed Magggie Gyllenhaal and actor Jessie Buckley finished The Bride! (Warner Bros., 3.6), a 1930s social-justice re-imagining of The Bride of Frankenstein which began filming in March 2024. Soon after wrapping Buckley flew to England to begin work on Hamnet, which began lensing in July 2024 (London, Herefordshire and the village of Weobley). Gyllenhaal’s horror musical-slash-revenge saga takes place in 1930s Chicago but was shot in New York City. The Bride! was originally set to open on 9.26.25 and then 10.3.25, but then Warner Bros. distribution apparenty freaked and bumped it into a 3.6.26 opening. The Bride! will probably be applauded by feminist wokey lah-lahs, but it’s obviously going to tank theatrically as far as Joe and Jane Popcorn are concerned. That spilled-inkwell tattoo on Buckley’s right cheek…nuff said. Will HE’s Kristi Coulter bend over backwards to praise it, or will she bring out the tough love? Posted on 3.19.25:

Earlier this month Jeff Sneider passed along loose talk about Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride (Warner Bros., 9.26.25), a woke-feminist re-imagining of James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein (‘35). And with musical interludes!

Sneider had heard the film is “pretty weird.” He might have added “too weird for the room” — a judgment indicated by WB distribution having given The Bride a new release date — 3.6.26.