Maggie Gyllenhaal on Casting Family in ‘The Bride!’ and Having Godmother Jamie Lee Curtis Champion the Film

Maggie Gyllenhaal cast several familiar faces in “The Bride,” her punk horror reimagining of the 1935 classic “Bride of Frankenstein.”

The film features her husband, Peter Sarsgaard, and her brother, Jake Gyllenhaal, and a reunion with Jessie Buckley, who starred in her feature directorial debut, “The Lost Daughter.” As for the bride’s monster groom, she landed on her “Dark Knight” co-star, Christian Bale.

“It was almost like meeting him again,” Gyllenhaal said about Bale at the film’s New York premiere on Tuesday night. “What was required of him in this movie, I needed his whole heart, his whole mind. We really needed to make friends — which we did — in order to do this.”

Gyllenhaal told Variety that her husband, Sarsgaard, “was in on the whole process” of bringing the $90 million fever dream to life, ranging from workshopping ideas to reading drafts of the script. Her brother, Jake, came into the picture later on.