Longtime readers will know that The Bride of Frankenstein is, full stop, one of my favorite movies. And Frankenstein is such a favorite book, I think I'm starting a re-read soon.
I'm not really much of a purist, as these things go. The book is 200+ years old, and folks can do as they please. What *does* bother me is when folks either have never seen Bride of Frankenstein or gravely, somehow, against all odds, misunderstood the movie. In either case it's believing that the movie is not 100% about the folly of believing you can make someone love you. (in this case, make someone to love you) And so we get all the cutesy merch with Franky and The Bride as a cute couple, and... well, I have to remind myself it's all in good fun.
So, I could care less if someone does *an entirely new story* that doesn't just bobble the 1935 movie. Take those basics of the Frankenstein movies and/ or book and go bananas. And, this looks bananas. Good on director Gyllenhaal. I'm in. I could care less that we already had Poor Things and Creature Commandos recently. Keep it coming.
Your guess what this will be is as good or better than mine.
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