Sacha Baron Cohen Set To Play Queen Singer Freddie Mercury In GK Film

Speechless.

http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/exclusive-sacha-baron-cohen-set-to-play-queen-singer-freddie-mercury-in-gk-film/#more-67806

"Whether it's Marvin Gaye, Janis Joplin, Phil Spector or a host of others, enough announced music pics stall that it’s hard to find one worth worth getting excited about. Try this one: Sacha Baron Cohen has closed a deal to play Queen front man Freddie Mercury in a film that’s being scripted by Peter Morgan for a 2011 production start."

That makes my stomach turn.

Johnny Depp was in talks to play Freddie a while ago...much better choice.

If true, there's nothing yet on imdb.com about it yet. I'll remain skeptical until I hear something more official. Artists, directors, writers and producers get "announced" attached to projects all the time, a good many either fall-through, change personnel or were total fiction to begin with. 

I guess we just wait and see.

Everyone wants to know who will be playing Freddie since the Daily Express article of a few days. Although I welcome the new movie and I must add it is about time..

I like!

Is this a 2007 or 2008 post?  yawn

It's on Brian May.com too so it's official. Finally you guys!

@Porcelina

Johnny Deep is shooting pirates 4 at the moment, then he has another 13 films in development, he was never going to be available to shoot in 2011.

Shame.

well, then.......I am sorry for being wrong on this.

and, then again, I'll say that I am sorry this d*ck got the gig.  We will have zero interest in seeing it.

I'm now certain this movie will be crap

on the plus side, this is NOT the godawful script written a few years back. Maybe Peter Morgan will do a good job, his other films have been great.

My only criticism is that he is too tall to play Freddie. They will have to wheel out Richard Kiel in a wig to play Brian! lol

Confirmed by Brian May:
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/hardtalk/9008440.stm
I welcome the movie though :)

I don't know man, I've been looking some S Baron photos, his face has an amazing natural resamblence to Freddie's. He's an actor and I think he could surprise us. I prefer him over a high budget movie starred by J Depp actually.

I'd love to see a deep well oriented drama type of film.

I study image and sound design so Im really looking forward to see how this is depoloped. So many ideas and possibilities to make a great intense movie, I hope they don't blow it.
I repeat, I dunno why but I have a feeling that Sacha can make a really good work.

I think it's a pretty good choice, he really looks like Freddie in this picture.

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/9528/boreddie.jpg