Wikileaks Sony Emails: "Untitled Freddie Mercury/Queen Film

Reading those notes from Sony's head feels like being screamed at incoherently! What a rude employer.

[QUOTE] [b]tomchristie22 wrote:[/b]

Reading those notes from Sony's head feels like being screamed at incoherently! What a rude employer.[/QUOTE]

Rude or not, she is spot on in a few places and seems to have a good idea overall of what type of character Mercury was.

Please never make the film, it will satisfy no one. Especially the people on this website.

It will if it's a good film.

The problem is a film obsessed over by mates/familiy members of the deceased is going to be fucking abysmal. Brian and Roger need to have zero involvement in it at all or accept it won't be made. Making Freddie's life bland, sanitised and frankly dull is ditchwater, won't do anyone any favours.

What will the plot be if we can't cover the drugs, the illness, the sexual adventures, the temper, the lifestyle or the infighting?

"Coming this summer....one man is on a journey.......a journey to find a place to have lunch during a tour of Germany........"

The idea the rumoured plot would end at Live Aid is a fucking absurdity. What will the big storyline be? Freddie's cab to Wembley being late? He couldn't find his fags that morning? Disaster strikes as alarm goes of fifteen minutes late?

I'd rather no Freddie movie was made at all rather than one that's as boring as fuck.

I quite like the idea of Live Aid being the culmination of the movie. As you might have read in the leaked notes, there would only be a scene of him finding out about HIV afterwards and that would be it. Tragic enough for me, don't need to see him being ravaged subsequently by the disease. Unless they want to make... you know... a sequel or something!!

Live Aid...mmm, Jim Hutton actor?
And Barbara Valentine for the Munich years?
I never like biopics. The only good I watched was the Clint Eastwood film's Bird..

I think Live Aid is the scene from which the narrative would go forward and backward a la Citizen Kane and so many other biopics. It's a decent idea for sure, as tried and true of a narrative technique as any.

The devil, as always, is in the details. I still think this is the most exciting of Queen side-developments, since DOOL documentary, which was awesome IMHO.

[QUOTE] [b]Apocalipsis_Darko wrote:[/b]

Live Aid...mmm, Jim Hutton actor?
And Barbara Valentine for the Munich years?
I never like biopics. The only good I watched was the Clint Eastwood film's Bird.. [/QUOTE]

Dear god...if Barbara appears in that movie they should stick with the facts...she was his coke pusher and a Party-Girl...yep they became good firends over that, but that`s it.
His main lover in Munich was W.K. and later there was Jim who flew from London to Munich on the weekends.

Don`t want to go to deep on the subject( his Lovers) here !

s/Valentine/Valentin/ BTW.

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[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]BETA215 wrote:[/b]

Do you have the PDF they are talking about? Could you find it?[/QUOTE]

Wanna start trading with any "leaked" emails ?[/QUOTE]

Shhh! That's my plan to leak the whole March '74 concert in 32mm quality! Don't mess my plan! Don't you wanna watch Fairy Feller's in video??!!

Oh, I think I said it quite loud...[/QUOTE]

35mm.[/QUOTE]

That's because they used the film they could afford, and that size was one of the experiments. "It only costs a fraction of a 35mm film." (John Deacon)

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Barbara Valentin was a terrible influence, but was very important in the Mercury's life in Munich. Said by Mack or by Roger Taylor. And even she was in the Mercury'sbirthday in 1990.

The film business is full of people like this Amy Pascal. I've worked with so many over the years and I just don't wont them touching my favourite band, like they are experts.

I think you might be actually wrong on this. Who on earth knows why Freddie was so drawn to her, despite knowing what she was actually doing for a living. And don't forget, she was invited back to the Garden Lodge, and sat alongside Mary Austin during his birthdays. I think she is an interesting character ;-)

[QUOTE] [b]musicland munich wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]Apocalipsis_Darko wrote:[/b]

Live Aid...mmm, Jim Hutton actor?
And Barbara Valentine for the Munich years?
I never like biopics. The only good I watched was the Clint Eastwood film's Bird.. [/QUOTE]

Dear god...if Barbara appears in that movie they should stick with the facts...she was his coke pusher and a Party-Girl...yep they became good firends over that, but that`s it.
His main lover in Munich was W.K. and later there was Jim who flew from London to Munich on the weekends.

Don`t want to go to deep on the subject( his Lovers) here ![/QUOTE]

Yeah, of course there must be something in her... but the reason why I mentioned this is that "Hollywood" and QP/ Jim Beach etc. maybe will come up with the idea to use Barbara to create a more "bisexual" picture of Freddie.

And actually MACK blamed her a Coke Dealer and also mentioned somthing like " wonder what Freddie want from this woman..." ( filmed interview 2012/ 13)

And if Barbara was waiting for him outside the "Frisco" in Munich, Freddie often choosed the backdoor of the club to be alone with the Boys.

"Coming this summer....one man is on a journey.......a journey to find a place to have lunch during a tour of Germany........"

I would go to see this movie!!!