Jake Gyllenhaal has a role in the Bride of Frankenstein remake his sister Maggie is directing, starring Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley

Several months ago, word leaked out that Maggie Gyllenhaal was set to create and direct a film called The Bride!, a new take on the notion of the 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein  (watch it HERE). Once believed to be set up at the Netflix streaming service, this one particular is essentially taking place at Warner Bros., and the studio has set the film for a theatrical release, IMAX screens incorporated, on October 3, 2025. Gyllenhaal has assembled a sturdy cast for the film that involves Penelope Cruz, Annette Bening, Peter Sarsgaard, Julianne Hough, John Magaro, and Jeannie Berlin, with Jessie Buckley as The Bride and Christian Bale as Frankenstein’s Monster… and now The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Gyllenhaal’s brother Jake Gyllenhaal also has a role in the film!

The reveal of Jake Gyllenhaal’s involvement in The Bride! comes in an write-up that requires a appear at Jake’s life and acting profession, with a mention that Jake became interested in acting following watching Maggie carry out in a junior higher college production of South Pacific. Later in the write-up, it is mentioned that “Jake’s childhood admiration of Maggie has evolved into a mutual, ride-or-die relationship as adults, and he has a role in her Bride of Frankenstein movie.” The write-up also points out that when Jake hosted Saturday Night Live in 2007, he wore a brief that bore the name of Maggie’s initially youngster, Ramona. When he hosted once again in 2022, he wore a shirt that added the name of her second youngster: Ramona and Gloria. When he hosted final month, he wore a shirt that mentioned “The Bride & Frank,” a nod to the film his sister is at present operating on. As he told The Hollywood Reporter, “This time I was like, ‘What do I do? Oh, I’ll just (namecheck) her other child.“

Details on the role Jake Gyllenhaal is playing in The Bride! have been not shared.

The Bride! has the following synopsis: A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in generating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young lady and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the focus of the police and a wild and radical social movement.

This is not a Universal project, but it wouldn’t be the first Bride of Frankenstein remake to be created by a distinctive firm. In 1985, Columbia Pictures brought us a different film basically called The Bride, which starred Sting as Baron Charles Frankenstein, Jennifer Beals as Eva (the bride) and Clancy Brown as Viktor (the monster). A handful of years ago, it was announced that Scarlett Johansson was going to star in a related project called Bride for A24 and Apple, but that nonetheless hasn’t created it into production.

What do you consider of Jake Gyllenhaal joining the cast of his sister’s The Bride!? Let us know by leaving a comment beneath.