{"id":2311061,"date":"2026-03-03T21:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2311061"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:57:18","slug":"its-way-too-risky-why-christian-bale-thought-he-had-the-wrong-script-for-the-bride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/its-way-too-risky-why-christian-bale-thought-he-had-the-wrong-script-for-the-bride\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s way too risky\u201d: Why Christian Bale Thought He Had The Wrong Script for The Bride!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">While attending the premiere for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088851\/\">The Bride<\/a>!, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000288\/\">Christian Bale<\/a>, who stars opposite <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2976580\/\">Jessie Buckley<\/a> in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0350454\/\">Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/a>\u2019s gothic reimagining of the classic tale, recalled being taken aback by the script. Given that risk-driven ventures that don\u2019t conform to proven formulas have been few and far between in the mainstream studio landscape, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17906157\/\">Bale<\/a> admitted that when he first read <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt30851137\/\">The Bride!<\/a>\u2018s script, he thought he had been sent the wrong screenplay.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, he was pleasantly surprised to learn that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0328721\/\">WB<\/a> was ready to bet $80 million on the movie (via Deadline), similar to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3363032\/\">Ryan Coogler<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\">Sinners<\/a> (as per THR).<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had the wrong script,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While attending the premiere for The Bride!, Christian Bale, who stars opposite Jessie Buckley in Maggie Gyllenhaal\u2019s gothic reimagining of the classic tale, recalled being taken aback by the script. Given that risk-driven ventures that don\u2019t conform to proven formulas have been few and far between in the mainstream studio landscape, Bale admitted that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2311062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2311061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Its-way-too-risky-Why-Christian-Bale-Thought-He-Had.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2311063,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311061\/revisions\/2311063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}