The writer-director also discusses casting Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, and her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal.

For the record, that piece of the novel was also left out of James Whale's 1931 Frankenstein, starring Boris Karloff as the most famous cinematic version of the creature. But it provided the basis for ...

Guillermo del Toro’s version of Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein has several new elements and plot beats, but the film stays faithful to the source material in one key respect. Both Shelly ...

There have been 50 versions of Frankenstein in movies over the years, but the best version only appeared in one film. Mary Shelley created Frankenstein and his Creature in her 1818 novelFrankenstein; ...

After earning three Oscar nominations for her 2021 directorial debut, The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhaal is making her return to the screen. Her new film, The Bride, is inspired by Mary Shelley’s ...

It was 1935 and Universal Pictures was on the verge of an overhaul. They were among the foundational studios in the Golden Age of Hollywood, but a series of financial missteps had left them desperate ...

Huh. Well, I have to say, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Frankenstein retelling, The Bride, definitely has the most shoot-outs of any Frankenstein movie I’ve ever seen. It almost feels more like a gritty, ...

Hollywood’s Frankenstein Renaissance is in full force, much to the delight of horror fans. Mary Shelley’s enduring sci-fi tale has been a part of the zeitgeist for literal centuries, but it’s been a ...

When Guillermo del Toro saw James Whale’s Frankenstein for the first time, aged seven, it was a divine experience. “On ...