Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner to Play Frankenstein's Creator

Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner will play famous author Mary Shelley in an upcoming film.

Deadline reported the news, revealing Turner has the lead role in Mary Shelly’s Monster, focusing on the young woman who’d give the world the iconic novel Frankenstein.

The film, written by Deborah Baxtrom, “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,” according to Deadline. Turner will act alongside Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) as Mary’s husband, Percy Shelley, and Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story) as Mary’s stepsister, Claire Clarmont.

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