Emmerich goes for Anonymous

Roland Emmerich is getting himself out of his end-of-the-world comfort zone as he takes on William Shakespeare in Anonymous. Hopefully nothing will suddenly implode or explode during the duration of this film if Emmerich is behind the wheel. For a bit more information, here’s what Empire Online scooped up.:

“It’s a mix of a lot of things: it’s an historical thriller because it’s about who will succeed Queen Elizabeth and the struggle of the people who want to have a hand in it. It’s the Tudors on one side and the Cecils on the other, and in between [the two] is the Queen. Through that story we tell how the plays written by the Earl of Oxford ended up labelled ‘William Shakespeare’.”

“We have Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Elizabeth; David Thewlis as William Cecil, old and young; and Rhys Ifans as The Earl Of Oxford. It’s a true English cast and I’m really proud of it. There’s 12 main characters and 20 or 30 other characters, and each of the characters is really good.”

Principal photography is expected to start up in March all the way in Berlin with no particular release date set.