The 48-year-old’s film is heavily inspired by the 1935 original The Bride Of Frankenstein and sees actress Jessie Buckley play The Bride and Christian Bale play Frankenstein’s Monster. Gyllenhaal said: “I was at a party, and I saw a man with a tattoo, on his whole forearm of The Bride Of Frankenstein – and it hooked me. “And I went back home, I was doing press in LA and I went back to my hotel room, and I looked her up online… the Elsa Lanchester original, Bride Of Frankenstein, just has this impact the way she looks, something about her is like formidable. “And then I watched the movie, which I hadn’t seen, and I realised she doesn’t speak… here’s this movie called The Bride Of Frankenstein, which is really not in any way about The Bride Of Frankenstein, and yet Elsa Lanchester makes this impact, even though she’s in the movie for three minutes and doesn’t speak. will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from March 6.

Source: The Herald January 16, 2026 11:48 UTC