Yey! Finally some big news for Jess, she has taken the female lead in 20th Century Fox’s upcoming Frankenstein. The Hollywood Reporter has the news, saying that she’ll play an injured trapeze artist who comes under the care of Dr. Frankenstein (James McAvoy) and Igor (Daniel Radcliffe).

The film, to be directed by Paul McGuigan and scripted by Max Landis (Chronicle) adapts Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel.

“I began to pick apart our knowledge of ‘Frankenstein’ and discovered that the public’s idea of this myth comes from a million different places,” Landis told ShockTillYouDrop.com last year. “…I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story. By the end of the day, it’s a period piece and yes, it’s from Igor’s perspective, but man it’s cool. It’s the best thing I’ve written.”

The part marks another big win after several actresses, including Felicity Jones, were considered. Upon departing the BBC drama, Findlay was the choice after months of tests for Akiva Goldsman’s Winter’s Tale. Prior to landing the part in Frankenstein, she was also in consideration for the female lead in the next installment of Pirates of the Caribbean.

This latest take on Mary Shelley’s chilling tale of man’s scientific hubris has McAvoy as the titular doctor and Radcliffe as Igor, through whose eyes the story will be told. Frankenstein, you’ll recall, is the man who thought it would be smart to build a creature out of dead people, which ultimately led to the screaming and the smashing and the mobs with the torches and property values going down all over the place.

Landis’ script gives it new layers. “It’s about two young, brilliant guys pushing each other. Eventually one loses his morality and the other has to bring him back,” Radcliffe told the Hollywood Reporter at the Toronto Film Festival.

Director Paul McGuigan wants the cameras cranking on this one later in the year in London and Scotland.

The actress, who played Lady Sybil Crawley in the award-winning hit TV show, has parted ways from her partner of two years, Thomas Campbell, according to Britain’s Daily Mail. The pair met at London’s Central St Martins College of Art, where Brown Findlay studied fine art while taking acting classes.

Miles Aldridge was joined last night by his model sister Saffron at the launch of I Only Want You to Love Me, a showcase of his fashion photography at Somerset House’s Embankment Gallery.

Images of  Jessica Brown Findlay, Cara Delevingne and Lily Cole are among those displayed in the retrospective, with Aldridge considering his use of traditional film as the key to his success.

“When I started out every photographer had their own kind of film and their own lab, and they kept their methods secret,” he explained. “I’ve held on to that. Digital is easier to do but less satisfying.” He has no intention of packing his camera to go on holiday. “I don’t take pictures when I go away,” he said. “Otherwise it’s somewhat of a busman’s holiday for me.”

Radio 4 is to air a drama called Mind Hackers. The drama, written by Lou Stein, featuring Jessica Brown Findlay as an “ambitious media lawyer Hayley Schaffer” who suspects that a daily newspaper is illegally obtaining information about one of her clients.

Anthony Head also stars as Hayley’s “former lover and mentor, newspaper lawyer Paul Madsen.”

Another character is publicity agent represented by Hayley played by actor/comedian Owen Brenman and is thought to be loosely based on Max Clifford.

“He is the wizard behind the gamesmanship of lawyers, newspaper hacks, and celebrity clients” according to Radio 4.

Olivier-Award winning actress Marcia Warren also stars as Hayley’s dry-humoured grandmother in the drama which airs on Friday June 24.