We’ve just received a press release that reveals that Kit Harington will lead the cast of a new film titled Mary’s Monster, which looks at Mary Shelley’s mental struggle to write her seminal novel, Frankenstein.
The film promises to bring to life the monster like never before, appearing to Mary as the manifestation of her own fragile and damaged psyche.
Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother; Teen Spirit; The Rising) has been cast in the lead role of Mary Shelley, with Kit Harington (Game of Thrones; Eternals) playing the Monster, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (CODA; Sing Street; Vikings) will play Mary’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sebastian De Souza (Normal People; The Great) to play Byron. Further cast to be announced in due course.
Mary’s Monster will bring the lives of Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and Lord Byron into sharp focus in a daringly innovative interpretation of one of the most exciting and radical times in history. Couture fashion meets gothic horror as we view their 19th century world through today’s lens against a backdrop of contemporary music, spoken word, sex, drugs and Baroque n Roll. This group of young creatives took life by the scruff of the neck and blazed their own trails, constantly pushing to change a world that wasn’t ready for them. Mary’s Monster will throw its’ audience smack bang into the middle of it as Mary embarks upon the journey of writing her most celebrated work.
Terrified of giving voice to her own dark, transgressive thoughts yet at the same time driven creatively by them, Mary is seduced by her own inner monster catapulting her into a dangerous, destructive psychological romance the likes of which has never been seen before. Realising the monster is inextricably linked to her own mental state, feeding off her own emotions, Mary’s only route to salvation is in bringing him to life. To survive, to heal, to finally be heard, her voice must become…monstrous.
BAFTA Award-winning Farren Blackburn is set to direct while Deborah Baxtrom and Stephen Hallett wrote the script.
