omg!

[cathstar]

So I was reading PerezHilton (don't judge! It's my guilty pleasure!) and I came across this which led me to this and I am just jskldjfaksjdksjd?! Ya know? All the deets are in the second link, but if you're too lazy:

Sacha Baron Cohen will be playing Freddie Mercury in a Queen biopic.

Production begins in 2011.

Movie focuses on band's early years and the Live Aid Perfomance (script in the works)

Still unsure if Cohen will sing or if Freddie's vocals will be used. But this makes me hyperventilate like a mad woman. I'm excited because it's Queen and I loved the Live Aid Performance (curse my birth being years after!!). I'm still a little iffy about Sacha Cohen as Freddie Mercury because the only movie I saw him in was Borat (ver' nice) and it was just in little clips (D8). I can't wait to see this! Or I can just go watch Live Aid on Youtube.

Anyway, thoughts?

Comments

[thejeopardymaze]

I am not happy about that at all.

[scaramouche]

What what what? I've been wanting a Freddie biopic for forever it seems, so this would be a dream come true!

I haven't seen any of Cohen's work so I don't know anything about him beyond that he's a comedian and he's married to Isla Fisher. I shall choose to be skeptical for now, but it's true that actors can surprise you...

I say that they ought to keep Freddie's vocals because they're so distinct... I was happy when they kept Selena's singing for her biopic, but I remember that in the Bobby Darin film (Beyond the Sea?) Kevin Spacey sang his own parts.

PS. I just checked Brian May's website, there's a press release there about it as well under the Queen News section

[egret]

This is big news.
I liked this project more when it was a Freddie biopic and not a Queen biopic.
But I guess that let's them make Live Aid the climax.

Thank you so much for posting these links!

[swordznsorcery]

It's an interesting idea. They've got a good writer for the project anyway, which bodes well. Certainly it's a great story, if handled the right way. I rather hope that he won't be doing his own singing, though! Freddie (and Roger for that matter) are too hard to live up to as vocalists.

It would make a good story, though. I remember years ago, Roger saying that the flat he and Freddie shared was very reminiscent of the one in Withnail & I (but with a grand piano in it). There's probably a great tale just in the flat-sharing! Have to admit that I find the idea of a pre-fame film more interesting, but I guess Live Aid is a fine place to end.

[stellar_raven]

Yeah...I'm not sure what I think about the whole thing yet myself. I just don't know.

[moonbathe_skin]

Sacha has played lots of diverse characters and I trust his acting skills to play Freddie!

Otherwise I think Russell Brand could do it!

[ganimede]

Really not impressed with having Cohen play Freddie. I've hated everything he's done and I just can't see him taking it seriously :/