We now have our first look at Academy Award winnerChristian Baleas the iconic horror iconFrankenstein’s Monster, as well as our first look at Oscar nominee Jessie Buckley asThe Bride. Bale and Buckley will lead the movie, which is all set to be directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and will remake the 1935 Universal monsters sequel,Bride of Frankenstein.
You can check out the first images fromThe Bridebelow.
Thanks to roles in the likes ofThe Machinist, Batman Begins, The Fighter, Vice,and more,Christian Bale has become known for transforminghimself physically for the sake of art and our entertainment.The Bridewill be no different, with the acclaimed actor having previously said…
“I’ve got to shave my head next week. I asked them to please let me hold off on doing that, but everyone was going, ‘What’s wrong with Bale? What’s up with him?’ I said, ‘Just let me get through the groundbreaking, and then I’ll be off to join you.’ I’ll be working with the wonderful Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley and so many talented actors in the cast. I’ve got to get busy getting on the rack, breaking my bones and eating lots of fertilizer or something to try and grow.”
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The rest of the cast ofThe Brideincludes Annette Bening, Penélope Cruz, Julianne Hough, and Peter Sarsgaard, with the movie reportedly being set in 1930s Chicago, and followingFrankensteinas he “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.”
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Bride Is Not the Only Movie Based on Mary Shelley’s Novel in the the Works
The Brideis not the only movie based on Mary Shelley’s seminal novel in the pipeline. Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro is finally working on bringing his long-gestating adaptation to life on the big screen as well. The project will feature an all-star cast led by Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankensteinand Jacob Elordi as The Monster. del Toro’sFrankensteinwill also star Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Christian Convery, and Charles Dance.
The movie is expected to be a retelling of the iconic novel, with the filmmaker making changes rather than making a straightforward adaptation of the source material. With this in mind, the current logline for Guillermo del Toro’sFrankensteinreads:
“Set in Easter Europe in the 19th Century, the story of Dr. Pretorious, who needs to track down Frankenstein’s monster- who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before–to continue the experiments of Dr. Frankenstein”
The filmmaker has been working towards bringinghis version ofFrankensteinto screens for decades now, with del Toro previously saying…
“I’m doing Frankenstein. We’re working on it, we start shooting on it in February. It’s a movie I’ve been wanting to do for 50 years since I saw the first Frankenstein and I had an epiphany and is basically a movie that requires a lot of growth and a lot of tools that I couldn’t have done 10 years ago, 20 years ago and now I’m brave or crazy enough or something and we’re going to tackle it.”
