Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ Will Have ‘Big Dance Numbers’ and Singing, Says Peter Sarsgaard

It sure sounds like Maggie Gyllenhaal is making her musical debut with her upcoming Frankenstein love story “The Bride!.”

Actor (and Gyllenhaal’s husband) Peter Sarsgaard, who co-stars alongside Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley in the upcoming Warner Bros. feature, told The Hollywood Reporter that the film will have singing and dancing.

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“It’s the best thing I’ve ever read,” Sarsgaard said. “To me, it’s both a big movie for adults and a big movie that’s for teenagers. It’s what everyone hopes for and tries to solve in making a big movie.”

Sarsgaard teased that the feature is a “punk” film that is “fast and really emotional.”

“Also, it’s violent at times and it’s wildly romantic,” he said. “‘The Bride!’ is so ambitious because the script really is one of the best scripts. Look, my wife wrote it so I’ll just go ahead and say that it’s the best script I’ve ever read. It really was satisfying on so many levels.”

Part of that satisfaction is from experiencing actors Bale and Buckley sing and dance onscreen, something that Sarsgaard merely hinted at which only added to the elusive nature of the highly-anticipated film.

“With Christian Bale, he’s such a phenomenal actor who has such devotion. Watching him on set… you know some actors try to stay in it. You have to call them by their character’s name and all that crap. They speak in the accent the entire time. It’s not like that with him,” Sarsgaard said. “It is just that he can’t help but be in it. It’s not a choice. It’s not a pretension. It’s just the way that he is. That changes the set when you have that type of leadership with him and with Maggie.”

He continued, “Then Jessie is the most abstract, random, free-flowing, in-the-moment actor you could ever work with. She can also sing and dance by the way — big time. There are big dance numbers and stuff in the movie.”

Sarsgaard summed up that “The Bride!” fits within the upcoming slate for Warner Bros., praising the studio for being “artistically-minded.”

“I’m so happy with the way that Warner Bros. has supported Maggie on the movie, too,” he said. “It’s nice to work with Pam Abdy over there who I worked with on ‘Garden State’ back in the day. It’s a great studio that has artistically-minded people running it.”

The logline for “The Bride!” reads: “A lonely Frankenstein travels to 1930s Chicago to seek the aide of a Dr. Euphronius in creating a companion for himself. The two reinvigorate a murdered young woman and the Bride is born. She is beyond what either of them intended, igniting a combustible romance, the attention of the police and a wild and radical social movement.”

Of course, “The Bride!” isn’t the only twisted, musically-enhanced love story on the horizon for WB, as “Joker: Folie à Deux” will have both Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga belting out tunes while in character as the titular antihero and Harley Quinn.

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