Synopsis: ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’s family disapproves when she and poet Percy Shelley announce their love for each other. The family is horrified when it finds that the couple has eloped, accompanied by Mary’s half-sister, Claire. While staying in the home of Lord Byron at Lake Geneva, the guests are challenged to write a ghost story, which leads Mary to conceive her novel “Frankenstein.”’

Ellen Fanning stars as the young Mary, who wrote Frankenstein when she still in her teens. Maisie Williams, Douglas Booth, Stephen Dillanem, Tom Sturridge, Ben Hardy and Hugh O’Conor also star in the film.

The film is out in the US on May 28th. It’ll arrive in the UK on July 6th. Take a look at the trailer and poster for the movie below. [Read more…]