Buried away in a story about German company Studio Babelsberg co-producing Dark Castle’s Liam Neeson-starring psychological thriller “Unknown White Male,” is a piece of solid gold. The next movie from director Roland Emmerich, (pictured on the left, demonstrating how many minutes he took to write the script for “2012”) will be “Anonymous,” a thriller focusing on the, quite frankly, bullshit theory that William Shakespeare didn’t write his own plays.
While news to us, this seems to have been in the works for some time. Emmerich spoke to Coming Soon earlier in the month about the picture, telling them “It’s about how it came to be that William Shakespeare was not the author of his plays. It’s not Marlowe, it’s De Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford. It’s kind of like a political thriller. It’s about who will succeed Elizabeth and the cause of that thriller, the Essex Rebellion, we take on and we learn how the plays were written by somebody else.” The script is by John Orloff, writer of “A Mighty Heart,” and the movie will start shooting on March 22nd next year, although Emmerich says he’s already shot some plates for the movie in England.
We never in a million years would have imagined this happening, but there we go. We have no idea how Emmerich will fit a tidal wave into this one, but we’re sure he’s got a plan: he does say, about the script, “Naturally, for dramatic reasons, you sometimes alter facts…”
Oh and Adam Lambert’s “2o12,” song leaked, but we so don’t even give a shit, we’re not doing anything more than an fyi.
I'm pretty sure if someone was able to write like Shakespeare they wouldn't attribute the authorship to someone else.
Something tells me this will never happen. Remember when Bay was saying that "from now on i'll do smaller pictures only" after TRotF? Well, now he's in production on Transformers 3. When 2012 is a huge success, which unfortunately it will be, he'll get talked into doing another big studio disaster porno.
More of this Stratfordian nonsense? Jeez, I hope this really is a Bay/Lucas 'I really wanna make small pictures' moment and not anything real. If Harold Bloom were dead, this would make him roll in his grave.
I can't wait to see this movie wait and listen to a cast American hacks try to conjure up a British accent worse than Scarlett Johannson's.
The theory that Shakespeare is not the actual author of his own plays is far from bullshit, if you actually research the subject. I've done a lot and it's fascinating. Don't write off something you know nothing about.
I'm a Stratfordian. Go to Wikipedia for a quick rundown.
"I'm pretty sure if someone was able to write like Shakespeare they wouldn't attribute the authorship to someone else."
I guess you don't know much about Renaissance culture.
P.s. I am really sorry for my terrible grammar. I guess I was just really enraged.