Another Mary Shelley biopic is on the way. “The Great’s” Elle Fanning played the “Frankenstein” author in Haifaa Al-Mansour’s “Mary Shelley,” released in 2017, and now word comes that Fulwell 73 and Rose Pictures are set to co-produce a pic about the trailblazer. According to Variety, “Mary’s Monster” will follow Shelley while she writes her acclaimed 1818 novel.
“Terrified of giving voice to the darkness of her subconscious mind, Mary Shelley locks into a dangerous battle with her own ‘inner monster’ as she struggles to write her seminal science fiction novel, ‘Frankenstein,'” the film’s logline teases.
Deborah Baxtrom (“Living With Frankenstein”) is penning the script.
A work of gothic fiction, “Frankenstein” tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a scientist who creates a sentient being known as The Monster. Shelley began writing the hugely influential novel when she was a teenager. The daughter of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” writer Mary Wollstonecraft and writer and political philosopher William Godwin, Shelley was born in 1797 and died in 1851.
“Frankenstein” has been adapted many times, most famously for James Wales’ 1931 film starring Boris Karloff as The Monster.
