Roland Emmerich is apparently prepping some kind of super secret alien invasion movie in the same vein as Cloverfield, but before that we’ll see the release of his film Anonymous on September 23, 2011.
Anonymous uses the argument it was the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere (Rhys Ifans), that actually wrote Shakespeare’s plays and is described as something of a political thriller set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I (Vanessa Redgrave), and the Essex Rebellion against her.
The film features Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Xavier Dolan, Joely Richardson, Jamie Campbell-Bower, Derek Jacobi, Rafe Spall and Rhys Ifans, the latter of which plays de Vere and it’s said it was Ifans’s performance in Anonymous that brought him to the attention of Columbia suits and earned him the role as the lead villain, The Lizard, in Marc Webb’s upcoming Untitled Spider-Man Reboot.
Of course, all of this is just a long-winded lead-in to tell you Harald Kloser and Thomas Wander have been hired to score Anonymous, making for the fourth time the duo will work with the helmer. The previous teamings include The Day After Tomorrow, 10,000 B.C. and 2012.
Anonymous is currently in post-production and such a film doesn’t sound exactly like something Emmerich, known for destroying the world with millions of dollars worth of CGI, would direct, but there’s an interesting Potsdam set visit at EMPIRE that gives us a little more insight as to what to expect:
But Anonymous is shaping up to be more than just a good excuse for the predictable ‘Bardegeddon’ or ‘Emmerich destroys the wold†headlines (and the one, ahem, at the top of the screen). The authorship question is a fun route into a widescreen Elizabethan world Emmerich is recreating with impressive CGI and 70+ painstakingly hand-built sets. One, a full-scale replica of London’s Rose Theatre, rises imposingly above the low-rise surrounds of Studio Babelsberg, once home to Fritz Lang’s modernist metropolis and Robert Wiene’s monstrous Dr. Caligari.
It sounds like it could be an interesting feature.
