It lives! From Mary Shelley to Danny Boyle, why we’re still fascinated by Frankenstein

It lives! From Mary Shelley to Danny Boyle, why we’re still fascinated by Frankenstein
The Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle and playwright Nick Dear first hatched the notion of joining forces on a version of Frankenstein back in 1990 when they were working together in Stratford on their excellent Last Days of Don Juan. But a major setback occurred in 1994 in the shape of the Kenneth Branagh movie Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. As one wag rightly remarked, that film should have …
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Keira Knightley: ‘I didn’t feel I deserved my success’ – interview
The star of Never Let Me Go on being chippy, playing a bad girl and making Carey Mulligan cry You play Ruth in Never Let Me Go . Had you read Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel before getting the part? I didn’t know the book at all. I read the script and thought it was a unique piece. I read the book afterwards, obviously, and found it so quiet and so devastating… So often films are simplistic, and …
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