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Mary Shelley: Directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour. With Elle Fanning, Bel Powley, Owen Richards, Joanne Froggatt. Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
Percy was twenty-two and from wealthy aristocracy, but had fallen in with the radical philosophies of Godwin and his social circles, and he became estranged from his pregnant wife, Harriet...
Mary Shelley (working title A Storm in the Stars) is a 2017 romantic period-drama film directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and written by Emma Jensen. The plot follows Mary Shelley 's first love and her romantic relationship with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, which inspired her to write her 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.
When Mary and Claire travel at the house of one of William's friends in Scotland, Mary meets the 21 years old poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, rising instantly a love interest between them. Returning to London little time later, Mary unexpectedly meets Percy again when he appears at her house in order to ask William to take him on as an apprentice.
They married in late 1816, after the suicide of Percy Shelley's wife, Harriet. In 1816, the couple and Mary's stepsister famously spent a summer with Lord Byron and John William Polidori near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein.
Logan D Mary Godwin falls in love with Percy Bysshe Shelley and eventually writes the masterpiece that secures her in history. Mary Shelley certainly had a more interesting life than this film...
Although she appears for just minutes at the opening, as Frankenstein author Mary Shelley and as the monster's mate at the film's climax, Lanchester was key to Bride of Frankenstein's success. According to film historian Paul Jensen, Lanchester's dual roles were essential to James Whale's vision.
