Director Roland Emmerich and his team were busy blowing up the world when they first began to put their minds to the task of re-creating Elizabethan England.

Back in 2009 Marc Weighart and his fellow special effects supervisor Volker Engel were still finishing the post apocalyptic blockbuster 2012 when Emmerich first mentioned their next project together – Anonymous, an historical thriller set in London at the turn of the 16th century.

Anonymous is a very unique challenge and itÂ’s very different to anything weÂ’ve done before. Roland loves to push things and try something new and thatÂ’s why itÂ’s so satisfying to work with him," reveals Engel.