New photo of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury

Bryan Singer published this photo from the set on his Instagram:[url]https://www.instagram.com/p/BaVKy23hTxG/[/url]

Is the moustache there or not? I can't tell. Looks like 78-79 Tour lights and wardrobe which would mean NO moustache. ..unless this was also part of the rig for hot space. ...


Where are the specialists to chime in?

Roger has the neckerchief and John's look too suggests it's '81 / '82.

It seems to me that he has a mustache and that "Roger" has a long hair.
From this angle, it seems that it doesn't look bad, but it's just a photo.

I mentioned this in the film thread. There's been a few of these come out. Montreal-esque

Not sure how accurate they are trying to be in reproducing lighting/costumes etc. Fred's gear is from 79 - 81 and the lighting rig looks more like '82 Hot Space but not the same. Details I know!!

Zooming in to about 300%, the mustache is clearly there:

https://imgur.com/a/ElcJ3

Such a strange looking lighting rig as it seems to be a combination from the 'Pizza Oven' and the 'US Hot Space' rigs.

[QUOTE] [b]pidge123 wrote:[/b]

Not sure how accurate they are trying to be in reproducing lighting/costumes etc. Fred's gear is from 79 - 81 and the lighting rig looks more like '82 Hot Space but not the same. Details I know!![/QUOTE]

That's what my gut is telling me. It seems composited. Maybe this sort of thing wouldn't be noticed by casual fans (*who've only POSSIBLY PURCHASED GH: but most likely have only STREAMED it)

But. ....who's the technical advisor? Surely Ratty would've been consulted?


I hope they don't have Freddie in gay clone mode during the 70's

[QUOTE] [b]ActionThisDay wrote:[/b]

Such a strange looking lighting rig as it seems to be a combination from the 'Pizza Oven' and the 'US Hot Space' rigs. [/QUOTE]

Agreed. It doesn't actually look like anything Queen toured with. This is where things could start unraveling, they seem to have a lot of the small details right (from what we've seen so far) but something this big is way off.

It wouldn't be hard or anymore expensive to hand this lights differently with different gels to make the rig look like any of or part of any of the 70's rigs. They wouldn't need to be mobile like those rigs were as they aren't being used to reproduce full gigs with full audiences

Anybody here on QZ INSTAGRAM friendly?

I don't like signing up for these things it's always some new bullshit social media platform every 2-3 years and i don't have time to commit to managing 5 at a time.

Has anybody questioned the factual basis of this yet?

Not like they're gonna stop production or anything hahaha. ...

I think it looks great
A mix of Game tour and H\S lighting and wardrobe

A good facsimile of a queen concert- I'd been impressed if they used those lights back in the day

RM seems to have the postures nailed, hope the vocals are as good

Deffo impressed by the visuals so far

Good on 'em!

Looks alright in pictures where he's facing in the other direction.

Wasn't too impressed with the footage of him on stage attempting to act like Freddie though.

I think they have either gone down the route of a generic lighting rig, in the style of Queen, or they are using this as a way of correctly lighting the band and they will CGI correct rigs in later?