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=== ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'' ===

In September 2011, Emmerich revealed plans to make ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'', a film named after the song sing by Marilyn Monroe his next film following ''[[Anonymous (film)|Anonymous]]'', adding that "[[Happy Birthday, Mr. President|the title will tell you everything]]".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Savage|first=Sophia|date=September 20, 2011|title=Emmerich's Happy Birthday, Mr. President; Spielberg’s Lincoln Not "Political Fodder"|url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general/emmerichs-happy-birthday-mr-president-spielbergs-lincoln-not-political-fodder-184809/|website=[[IndieWire]]|access-date=November 1, 2024}}</ref> It was set to be "an experiment in digital re-creation" that would feature both [[John F. Kennedy]] and [[Marilyn Monroe]] as minor characters.<ref name="NY">{{Cite webnews|last=Karpel|first=Ari|date=October 23, 2011|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/movies/roland-emmerichs-anonymous-seeks-to-unmask-shakespeare.html|title=Roland Emmerich's 'Anonymous' Seeks To Unmask Shakespeare|websitenewspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=November 1, 2024}}</ref> ''Anonymous'' screenwriter [[John Orloff]] wrote the project. Emmerich described the script that November as "a historical thriller about how the FBI and its forces conspired to bring down the Kennedys".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Arbor|first=Ann|date=November 4, 2011|url=https://www.mlive.com/movies/2011/11/director_roland_emmerich_discu.html|title=Director Roland Emmerich discusses diverting from spectacle for Shakespeare film 'Anonymous'}}</ref> ''Happy Birthday, Mr. President'' has been proven difficult to finance due to its risky political subject matter.<ref name="NY"/>

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