Per Variety, a biopic revolving around Frankenstein author Mary Shelley is in the works. The film will be titled Mary’s Monster, and has already secured Farren Blackburn (Shut In) to direct from a screenplay penned by Deborah Baxtrom.
The film will tell the story of the famous author as she pushes forward against all odds to publish her novel, battling her own ‘inner monster’ along the way.
Published in 1818 and still considered an all-time classic, Frankenstein told the tale of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist that tests the morality of the scientific process by creating a monster who terrifies others with his appearance but is also intelligent and emotional. The monster’s negative interactions with humans eventually lead him down a path of death and destruction.
Widely considered the world’s piece of science fiction, the novel would go on to become iconic and spawn a myriad of film, TV, and stage adaptations. Shelley is believed to have come up with the novel at just 19 during a stay by Lake Geneva with her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and poet Lord Byron, where the trio kept themselves entertained with ghost stories.
Shelley was a revered writer at a time that the profession shunned females. Her journey and personal life has influenced a number of projects, with Elle Fanning most recently portraying her in a 2017 biopic that centered around Shelley’s marriage to her husband.
Rose Pictures and Fulwell 73 will produce the film, which currently doesn’t have a release date.
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