**SPOILER ALERT** This article contains details about the plot of the film. Director Haifaa Al-Mansour and writer Emma Jensen have given Hollywood the inspiring biopic it so desperately needs. Mary Shelley tells the story of the now famous teenaged author of Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. Born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Mary was the daughter of the infamous feminist author Mary Wollstonecraft and political philosopher William Godwin, a radical proponent of equality, utilitarianism, and anarchism. Mary’s mother died when she was an infant, and William Godwin (played in the film by Stephen Dillane), raised his daughter to be an independent thinker,…
Author: Jessica Hobbs
Jessica Hobbs
Jessica Hobbs spent the early part of her career working in technical theater, opera, and film festivals while earning her film degree at the University of Colorado. She spent a year touring with a Vaudeville show, which included a 3-week run at the New Victory Theater in New York. After five years working in Reality TV as a writer’s assistant and Associate Producer, she made the move to Los Angeles and took a job with the Sundance Institute, while also working as a freelance writer and producer for film, theatre, and TV.