Elle Fanning will portray the canonized writer in a new drama titled Mary Shelley, formerly the artier-sounding A Storm in the Stars.
Before The Craft, before the advent of Hot Topic, before the girl in the Siouxsie and the Banshees T-shirt from Wet Hot American Summer — there was Mary Shelley.
In it, a fetching-looking Shelley stares into space while writing in her notebook, perhaps searching for inspiration from the graveyard around her.
Today brings the first official look at the upcoming film, currently angling to find a distributor in the marketplace at the Berlinale Film Festival.