In a new take on the life and lore of Frankenstein authoress Mary Shelley,
“Game of Thrones‘” Sophie Turner, pictured, has been cast as Mary Shelley opposite Jeremy Irvine (War Horse, Stonewall) as Percy Shelley in Mary Shelley’s Monster, writes Deadline.
Scripted by Deborah Baxtrom, Mary Shelley’s Monster tracks the young writer as she writes her seminal novel and is drawn into a Faustian bargain with her own “monster” of an alter ego, who offers literary fame at a desperate personal cost. Taissa Farmiga (“American Horror Story,” The Bling Ring) is attached in a supporting role as Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont.
The real Shelley first published her Gothic horror classic “Frankenstein” anonymously at the age of 21 after marrying the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Director Coky Giedroyc is helming after directing episodes of AMC’s “The Killing” and Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful.”
