Surprisingly, this headline does not refer to a clever mashup video.  Instead, Roland Emmerich, the director behind 2012, Independence Day, 10,000 BC, and The Day After Tomorrow, actually says he’s going to make a film about Shakespeare.  I expect shaking, and spears.

EMMERICH: [Called "Anonymous"] It’s about how it came to be that William Shakespeare was not the author of his plays.  It’s not [Christopher] Marlowe, it’s [Edward] 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. [Collider]

So basically, it’s only about Shakespeare insomuch as National Treasure was about Abraham Lincoln.  Which is good.  First, because people only care about Shakespeare when they’re trying to sound smart, and second because I’m not sure I could live in a world where Roland Emmerich directed human dramas.  In fact, while I was writing this post, I accidentally typed “Sharkespeare”.  That sounds way more like a Roland Emmerich movie.  OH MY GOD IT ATE THE GRAND CANYON!