The movie industry is starting to heed the call for more stories told from diverse perspectives, by diverse voices. The tide is starting to change, though, as we are seeing more movies about the people who have been in the shadows, whose contributions to history were overlooked or flat-out ignored, simply because of their gender or color. As he continued to do a deep dive into the history of fossils pun intended , he came across one of the most acclaimed fossil hunters of the 19th century, a person who was overlooked and underappreciated simply because she was a woman. Her name was Mary Anning, and Lee knew he wanted to tell her story. The result is a new movie called Ammonite , starring Kate Winslet as Anning, and Saoirse Ronan as her friend and lover. Ammonite is set on the harsh, unforgiving and cold English coastline of Lyme Regis in the s.