Maggie Gyllenhaal turns heads at CinemaCon 2025 with a frightening trailer of The Bride!: Here's all you need to know

Filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal turns heads at CinemaCon 2025 with a frightening trailer of her upcoming film, The Bride!.

Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the trailer of The Bride! has dazzled the audience on Day 2 at the event of CinemaCon 2025. The trailer is not out in public yet.

The film stars Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Annette Bening, and many others.

The 1935 vintage film, Bride of Frankenstein, is the impetus behind the upcoming film. The film was derived from the iconic novel 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley.

However, The Bride! is set in the era of the 1930s, as Frankenstein finds love in a woman who literally comes back to life after death.

The plotline of the film goes by:

In 1930s Chicago, Frankenstein 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.

Let us dive into more details about the trailer of The Bride!, showcased at CinemaCon 2025.

Maggie Gyllenhaal turns heads at CinemaCon 2025 with a frightening trailer of The Bride!

Helmed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, the trailer of her forthcoming release, The Bride!, has enticed the audience at CinemaCon 2025.

CinemaCon 2025 is a 4-day event that commenced on 31st March 2025 and will end on 3rd April 2025. It happens every year and is known to be one of the most imperative events related to films. This event serves as a platform for forthcoming film releases, which garners immense audience participation.

Along with the footage of The Bride!, there were several other forthcoming films that showcased their presentation at CinemaCon 2025, including Final Destination Bloodlines, Weapons, Cat in the Hat, The Conjuring: Last Rites, Mortal Kombat 2, Hurry Up Tomorrow, The Housemaid, and one of the most exciting upcoming releases of the year, Superman.

The trailer of The Bride! has been showcased on Day 2 of the event, that is, 1st April, 2025.

This year, CinemaCon 2025 took place at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas.

Even though the trailer of The Bride! is not yet out in public, we have details about what goes in the trailer of the film.

In the onset of the trailer, we witness a woman, essayed by Jessie Buckley, meet with death after she tumbles down the staircase. But with the help of Christian Bale's character, Frankenstein, she comes back alive, rebirthing as 'the bride.' The rest of the film follows their twisted, passionate love story.

The trailer has several visuals of gore, violence, and high-stakes action, with Christian Bale's Frankenstein uttering at last, "Till death do us part," to which the Bride says, "There is nothing left to do now but live.”

In the ending of the trailer, the Bride says, "What's my name? I can’t remember.”

More about Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!"

The genre of the film is horror, blended with steampunk elements. As per Collider, Maggie Gyllenhaal shares an anecdote on what made her arrive at the creation of this film. The filmmaker reveals:

"I was looking for something pop and big, and I wanted it to be radical at the same time. I didn’t quite know what I wanted it to be. Then I was at this party and I saw this guy with The Bride of Frankenstein tattooed on his arm. It hooked me and I went home and watched the movie.

Gyllenhaal further shed light on her thoughts about the OG 1935 film, Bride of Frankenstein, and which aspect about it has driven us into the process, as she says:

"In the original Bride of Frankenstein, she’s in the movie for three minutes, and she doesn’t speak. Even in her three minutes, she kind of had this wild disobedience in her and it sort of got me thinking. This kind of ask that Frankenstein has, ‘I’ll just take a bride’... and what happens when that Bride comes back is beyond his wildest imagination and doesn’t fit into the box he had for her. I think that all of us have a little aspect of something monstrous in us. The monsters in our movie do monstrous things, but they’re also our heroes."

As per Variety, actor Jessie Buckley, who essays the role of Frankenstein's Bride, thinks of her character to be "a bit naughty!"

According to Collider, Jessie Buckley also further made an association with her and Christian Bale's characters in the film to be on the lines with Bonnie and Clyde and Wild at Heart. She also describes their relationship in the film, as she says,

"When I first read Maggie’s script, it was like being plugged into an electrical current. I would describe it as the punkest love that’s ever existed. It’s like Bonnie and Clyde and Wild at Heart and all those characters, but I think ours has some petrol in its skin, and we’re holding a match."

The Bride! is set to release next year, on 6th March, 2026.