After ‘The Bride!’, Maggie Gyllenhaal Reteams with Warner Bros. for New Movie Based on Rachel Kushner Book
The studio is backing Gyllenhaal again after The Bride grossed $24 million worldwide on a $90 million budget.
- Warner Bros. has optioned Rachel Kushner's 2024 novel Creation Lake for Maggie Gyllenhaal to write, direct, and produce.
- The deal comes three months after Warner released Gyllenhaal's Bride of Frankenstein reimagining The Bride!, which flopped, grossing $24 million worldwide on a $90 million budget.
- Creation Lake centers on a secret agent, Sadie Smith, an American woman infiltrating an eco-activist collective in France; the 2024 novel was a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
- Warner film chief Pam Abdy has championed Gyllenhaal both before and after The Bride!'s release, demonstrating the studio's continued faith in the filmmaker's vision.
- Gyllenhaal is set to receive the President's Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, following her Oscar nomination for her directorial debut, The Lost Daughter.
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Maggie Gyllenhaal to Direct Adaptation of Rachel Kushner's 'Creation Lake'
Get latest articles and stories on Entertainment at LatestLY. Actor-filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to reunite with Warner Bros. for a new project, with the studio acquiring Rachel Kushner's acclaimed novel 'Creation Lake' for her to develop, produce and direct, according to Variety. Entertainment News | Maggie Gyllenhaal to Direct Adaptation of Rachel Kushner's 'Creation Lake'.
Warner Bros. Teams Up Again With Maggie Gyllenhaal to Adapt Thriller 'Creation Lake'
Maggie Gyllenhaal will be teaming up once again with Warner Bros. to adapt the Rachel Kushner novel “Creation Lake,” as the studio has optioned the rights to the novel for the filmmaker to develop as writer, director and producer. The deal comes three months after Warner released Gyllenhaal’s “Bride of Frankenstein” reimagining “The Bride!” which was a bust at the box office. “Creation Lake” follows a spy who is hired to disrupt a farming collec…
Maggie Gyllenhaal to Adapt Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ for Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. is reteaming with Maggie Gyllenhaal for a new project following last year’s Gothic romance “The Bride!” The studio acquired Rachel Kushner’s novel “Creation Lake” for Gyllenhaal to develop, with plans to produce and direct. “Creation Lake” centers on a secret agent, “Sadie Smith,” a thirty-four-year-old American woman sent to infiltrate an eco-activist collective in France using her skills of seduction and manipulation. But as s…
The Bride! will unfortunately remain in the annals as one of the most hot chess of the box office in recent years. But the director Maggie Gyllenhaal did not say her last word, and will come back with another adaptation of the novel. Only a few months after the release of the Frankenstein by Guillermo del Toro on Netflix, [...]
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