Jed Mercurio's Frankenstein with Helen McCrory @ Memorable TV

FRANKENSTEIN

ITV1 / 24 October @ 9.00pm

Jed Mercurio's startling modern day take on the Frankenstein legend airs this Wednesday on the ITV1 Network as he gives Mary Shelley’s classic horror a fresh new twist, as literature’s most infamous creator, Dr Victor Frankenstein, is re-born in the 21st Century as a female biologist for ITV1.

Multi-award winning actress Helen McCrory (Becoming Jane, The Queen) is Victoria, the female scientist whose controversial research ultimately spawns a monster. McCrory leads a stellar cast which includes James Purefoy (Rome,Vanity Fair) and Lindsay Duncan (Starter for Ten, Longford) in Mercurio’s modern re-working of this tragic tale of obsession.

Shelley’s 19th century snow-filled original warned of the dangers of the over ambition of modern man. Taking the same themes, Mercurio’s Victoria is a thoroughly modern 21st Century scientist conducting ground breaking, but highly controversial work in the field of stem cell research and medical biotechnology.

Her obsessive drive to control cell growth for multi-organ generation and transplant however comes not from the desire for fame and adulation, but to save her dying son William. Maddened by grief and desperation, Victoria secretly takes a sample of his blood and incorporates it into her research programme, the Universal Xenograft Project.

In the confines of a purpose built tank in the Graft Lab, the cells grow at an extraordinarily accelerated rate. And as they diversify, mutate and re-form, Victoria realises with horror that she is no longer in control of the experiment; that the UX is breeding its own bio-organism and it’s alive!

See also James Purefoy interview

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