“Game of Thrones” Stars tossed in the “Storm”
Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth as Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley
More casting has been announced in the now filming Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley story “A Storm in The Stars” added to the principal lead characters of Elle Fanning as Mary, Douglas Booth as Shelley and Bel Powley as Claire. Some time ago a Game of Thrones cast member, Sophie Turner, had been announced to play Mary Shelley in an alternative project “Mary Shelley’s Monster”, which hasn’t taken off, but more alumni from the HBO medieval hit have now found their way into the Haifaa Al-Mansour directed version of the stormy relationship of the 19th Century poetic personalities from a screenplay by Emma Jensen and Conor McPherson.
Maisie Williams (Arya Stark on Thrones) has been tapped to play Mary’s childhood friend Isabel Baxter, who Mary knew from her stay with the Baxter family in Dundee Scotland, and Stephen Dillane (Stannis Baratheon on Thrones) will play Mary’s father, publisher William Godwin, alongside Joanne Froggatt from Downton Abbey who plays Mary’s step-mother and Claire’s mother, Mary Jane Clairemont. The actor chosen to play the mad and bad Lord Byron with whom Claire has an illegitimate child, Allegra, has been revealed as Tom Sturridge (Henry IV in “The Hollow Crown” and the romantic soldier from the recent remake of “Far From The Madding Crowd”). Ben Hardy is also in the cast and Ciara Charteris is playing Percy Shelley’s first wife, Harriet.
Some newcomers are also in the film, Ingridi Verardo De Moraes, Michael Cloke, and Donna Marie Sludds. The picture has been shooting in Dublin for the London scenes and production is scheduled to move to Luxembourg sound stages.
