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Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is set to star in a new movie about Frankenstein author Mary Shelley.

Mary’s Monster, a film about author Mary Shelley’s mental struggle to write her 1818 novel Frankenstein.Set to be directed by Farren Blackburn (The Innocents, Shut In), Mary’s Monster is described as a “rock ‘n’ roll” take on the story, which depicts the 19th century “through today’s lens against a backdrop of contemporary music, spoken word, sex, drugs and Baroque ‘n’ Roll”.Rugaard (I Am Mother) will play the lead role of Shelley, while Harington (Game Of Thrones) will play the Monster. The cast also includes Ferdia Walsh-Peelo (CODA) as Mary’s husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Sebastian De Souza (Normal People) as Lord Byron.A synopsis reads: “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.

EXCLUSIVE: Clara Rugaard (I Am Mother) and Kit Harington (Game Of Thrones) are set to star in a new movie about the life and circle of Frankenstein scribe Mary Shelley.

EXCLUSIVE: Crypt TV, which is best known for Peacock’s Girl In The Woods and Facebook Watch’s The Birch, has set up its first domestic feature film.

K.J. Yossman Fulwell 73 have teamed with Rose Pictures (“Kill Your Darlings”) to co-produce a feature about “Frankenstein” author Mary Shelley, Variety has learned exclusively.Titled “Mary’s Monster,” it follows Shelley as she struggles to complete her gothic masterpiece, which was published in 1818.Farren Blackburn (“Daredevil,” “A Discovery of Witches”) will direct the feature from a screenplay by Deborah Baxtrom (“Living With Frankenstein”).

Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein are two of the most well-known. Stephen King’s works also immediately come to mind: Carrie, The Shining, It, Misery, 1922, Pet Sematary, and many more.The media can’t seem to get enough of horror book adaptations.

EXCLUSIVE: Peaky Blinders, Halo, and Robin Hood director Otto Bathurst has signed up to helm and co-produce Stone Village Television and BlackBox Multimedia’s latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.

Also on this day: The first edition of the Gothic novel "Frankenstein" by English author Mary Shelley is published anonymously in London.The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York formally opens. Country singer Hank Williams Sr., 29, is found dead in the back seat of his car during a stop in Oak Hill, West Va., while he was being driven to a concert date in Canton, Ohio.

Douglas Booth and Bel Powley aren’t spotted together too often, but we have some cute new photos of the couple!

The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) loves a good ghost story, but this might not be the one she bargained for. In this exclusive sneak peek at Sunday's episode of Doctor Who, the Doctor and her fam visit Mary Shelley (Lili Miller) on the night that was supposed to have inspired her to write Frankenstein. So why would Mary rather dance?

By Andreas Wiseman