Authorship film projects underway in US, UK.

At the winter 2001 meeting of the De Vere Society Michael Peer (the producer of last year's The Shakespeare Conspiracy, a documentary narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi outlining the Oxfordian case) announced that he is finishing the script of Alias Shakespeare--the title taken from Joseph Sobran's book--under the auspices of Kenneth Branagh's film company.

Peer outlined a bit of the plot and revealed an impressive cast list: Branagh as the Stratford man, Robert Carlyle as the 17th Earl, Jacobi as Lord Burghley, Helena Bonham Carter as Anne Cecil, Cate Blanchett reprising her role of Queen Elizabeth, Charles Dance as the 13th Earl of Oxford, and Patrick Stewart as the 16th …