Bohemian Rhapsody
The upcoming Queen biopic , Bohemian Rhapsody , has barf frontman Freddie Mercury ’s striation mates . The Rock and Roll Hall of Famers have had their music as part of numerous memorable film moments over the years . Their song " Bohemian Rhapsody " has been featured in numerous films and idiot box show , most notable 1992’sWayne ’s World . They recorded the musical theme Sung dynasty for the 1980Flash Gordonfilm and also write much of the soundtrack for the originalHighlanderfilm in 1986 . Other Queen songs have been in such movie asHappy FeetandMoulin Rouge .
For the last several year , an effort has been underway to make a feature film film about Mercury and Queen . Sacha Baron Cohen was confiscate as the sensation for a long menses of meter , but the project eventually fell apart due to dissonance between Cohen and the surviving members of the band . Finally , a Queen movie was announce earlierthis summer , to be directed by Bryan Singer , starring Rami Malek ( Mr. Robot ) as Mercury , and produced with the full cooperation of the other Queen appendage . It ’s named for the grouping ’s iconic Sung , and now we know who will be playing the other members of the band .
A troika of new worker have been cast as the three additional members of Queen . British actor Ben Hardy ( X - Men : Apocalypse ) will act as drummer Roger Taylor , British actor Gwilym Lee ( The Hollow Crown ) will recreate guitarist Brian May , while American worker Joe Mazzello ( The Social web ) will play bassist John Deacon , Tracking Boardreported .
We also know that Justin Haythe is write the screenplay ; Peter Morgan had been declare as the screenwriterwhen Baron Cohen was attachedbut apparently the product wo n’t be using his version . The project is set up at twentieth Century Fox , and will be discharge in December 2018 .
The three actors playing the non - Mercury members of Queen are relatively obscure . While one might call back that a movie about Queen would live on or die based on the depiction of the frontman , a reported demand of the subsist Queen memberswas that the film be the story of the whole dance band .
The other motion about the film is whether It will recite the narrative in a wholly uncompromised way . Will we get an radius - rated depiction of Mercury , including his AIDS - related last and the legion controversies from throughout Queen chronicle ? Or will the story , with the other Queen members on board , give a sanitized , sense - undecomposed version of the tale ? We ’ll determine out in a little over a year .
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Source : The Tracking Board
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