Freddie Mercury biopic 'probably won't happen' (Peter Morgan via BBC)

There's more to his personal life than being gay. Similarly there's more to being gay than occasional scenes of someone being bummed.

The trauma, struggle and heartbreak of him failing to maintain a relationship throughout the height of his popularity, the sex, drugs, the excess etc. There's a lot to tell but it would appear as if the most exciting thing we're likely to get is the untold story of how his car broke down on way to film the video for Radio Ga Ga and he turned up two hours late, throwing the lunch schedule into chaos.

[QUOTE] [b]Snackpot wrote:[/b]

There's more to his personal life than being gay. Similarly there's more to being gay than occasional scenes of someone being bummed.[/QUOTE]

... and there's more to gay sex than "bumming".

Sure nothing is 100% guaranteed i guess I will give you that, but this is not a simple DVD re-master or re-worked film of a concert, this is much bigger, many hours of work on scripts and locations and actors, pre-production alone will mount up to the same figures spent putting on a tour, so they have a hell of a lot more invested in this then they do in a DVD of a concert. Plus they have business partners in other companies who will want to see a return on this.
So speaking from a purely business point of view I would say it WILL get made, companies are not going to throw away hundreds of thousands of pounds simply because the lead actor walked, they will simply find another.
What happens to it in the end will depend on how well made it is, whether it goes straight to DVD or gets a general release we shall see, but I am certain this will not de-rail such a big project.
The only projects QPL shelve our ones that they have limited funds invested in. Greg digging around for a year in the vaults trying to cobble together a lost film is not going to loose them much money if they then shelve it.
But getting hollywood scripts, directors and production involved is ramping up the bucks... so yes it will happen.

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[QUOTE] [b]Togg wrote:[/b]

Of course it's still going, way too much money and time involved to stop it just because an actor has walked, they will simply get another one, you can't tell me there aren't hundreds of actors out there that wouldn't love to get the part. It may well go to an unknown, but either way I would say with 100% certainty that it will get made[/QUOTE]

How on earth can you say about ANY Queen related project that it's 100% guaranteed to happen?

Bloody hell, QP has FINISHED products sitting on the shelf which haven't been released because they changed their minds afte the work was done.

Jusi like any other Queen release, this biopic isn't certain until it's actually released for the audience to buy.[/QUOTE]

Oh great news ! Thank god ! I don't want a movie about freddie ! I don't want some actor to play Freddie , there is only one , if you want his story read biographies or watch documentaries .

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Unless you're getting into personal life then what's the point of making a biographical movie?

I can only imagine what sanitized, mundane storyline they must have had in mind.

"Coming this summer to a movie theater near you: The story of the man who sang a bit, and was good at it"

...because if you leave out the personal life/issues stuff that is ALL you're going to get and my any stretch of the imagination that isn't a movie. I heard they wanted to end it on the Magic tour. So the climax of the show, the whole 'hook' for the audience will whether Freddie can hit the note on the middle-eighth of WWTLF in Holland?
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Very much true.

Personally I have little interest to see a movie about Freddie but I'll admit that his life story as a whole was much more interesting and eventful than that of most musicians: for example he was with that Mary woman but then realized he was gay and they broke up, he composed the strange masterpiece Bohemian Rhapsody, he lived the excessive sex drugs & rock'n'roll lifestyle with outrageous parties in the late 70s and early 80s, he got AIDS as a result and retired from the public eye, living quietly until his premature and tragic death from the illness. His appearance changed greatly during a few years, he was friends with some famous people and he could be a bit of man of contradictions in that on stage he was this majestic and adored figure and he took part in the wild rock star life, but he could also be a reserved person in private and not do many interviews.

So whether Freddie's life translates into a good movie or not completely depends on how it is handled. If some really talented people made a movie of Freddie's life it could be worthwhile - however it would never be that if it was simply about him being a great singer. There would be no drama in a movie about his professional life and especially if it's done by Queen Productions or with Brian & Roger in creative control it wouldn't any more serious movie than some polished Justin Bieber promo clip.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Brian & Roger disagreeing about the rating does not give me the idea that SBC wanted to do a two-hour gay porn movie (he's supposed to be a fan and reasonable person after all), it suggests that he didn't want to stay away from the personal issues while Brian and Roger didn't want to touch them at all. But as said, if it's about Freddie being a great singer and great and successful person and ends with the Live Aid performance or Magic Tour then you could hardly call it a movie at all - it would just be a laughable Freddie Mercury commercial and no film critic could take it seriously (maybe it could be shown exclusively at some fan club conventions).

I don't know why I even wrote so much as i don't really care about the whole thing.