Thanks to Roland Emmerich's Anonymous, the status of "definitive farce detailing William Shakespeare's origin" seemed forever locked. That might change though, with the release of a more intentionally amusing biopic, entitled Bill, this September. Check out the trailer below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyjEDTd-E-U Bill follows a young William Shakespeare adrift in the world. Trying and failing at a number of professions, Bill arbitrarily takes a stab at writing, but not everybody buys into his new literary vocation, as it leads him down a road peppered with spies, romance and high-ranking assassination plots. Bill stars Mathew Baynton (The Wrong Mans) as The Bard, with support coming courtesy of comedy stalwarts Simon Farnaby (Your Highness), Rufus Jones (Holy Flying Circus) and Jim Howick (Peep Show). If you're halfway familiar with the last decade of British comedy, you'll definitely spot a face or two you know. The trailer has a quintessentially British feel, pitching its comedic wares in a pretty broad direction, but not unsuccessfully so. It looks energetic, well-intentioned, and even if it's better suited to the family demographic (sorry, Shakespeare scholars), that should be enough to see it make a mark when it opens on 18th September in the UK. It can't be more ridiculous than Anonymous, but based on the trailer, it looks a good deal less tiresome.
