Warner Bros Releases First Trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride

Warner Bros. on Tuesday released the first trailer for The Bride, filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal's reimagining of Frankenstein set in 1930s Chicago, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. The teaser introduces a reanimated young woman, brought back to life by Bale's lonely Frankenstein with the help of Dr. Euphronius, played by Annette Bening, and hints at murder, possession, a combustible romance and a radical social movement that follows the creature and his companion.

According to the studio synopsis shown in the trailer, the Frankenstein character travels to Depression era Chicago to enlist Dr. Euphronius to create a companion. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman who awakens with no memory of her former life. In one line from the teaser, the Bride asks, "Was I the same before the accident?" Bale's monster replies that there is nothing left to do but live, and the images that follow depict a Bonnie and Clyde style flight through poverty-stricken streets as the pair are hunted by police and embraced, and vilified, by elements of the public.

The cast includes Penélope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Julianne Hough and John Magaro, among others. Gyllenhaal...