Roland Emmerich's ANONYMOUS Movie Poster

Here is the first movie poster for Roland Emmerich's new film Anonymous, which surprisingly has nothing to do with the end of the world. I don't really care for most the films that Emmerich has made, but this movie actually interests me. The story focuses on telling the story of a conspiracy theory that revolves around William Shakespeare and how some scholars believe that he never wrote anything that has his name on it. If you want to watch the trailer for the film Click Here.

The film stars Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, David Thewlis, Xavier Samuel, Sebastian Armesto, Rafe Spall, Edward Hogg, Jamie Campbell Bower and Derek Jacobi.

Here's the synopsis for the film:

Set in the political snake-pit of Elizabethan England, and it speculates on an issue that has for centuries intrigued academics and brilliant minds ranging from Mark Twain and Charles Dickens to Henry James and Sigmund Freud, namely: who was the author of the plays credited to William Shakespeare? Experts have debated, books have been written, and scholars have devoted their lives to protecting or debunking theories surrounding the authorship of the most renowned works in English literature. Anonymous poses one possible answer, focusing on a time when cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne were exposed in the most unlikely of places: the London stage.

The film is set to be released on September 30th 2011.