So Sacha Baron Cohen aka Ali G aka Borat is to play Freddie in the upcoming movie (no joke).
According to this mornings Daily Mirror he's beaten the likes of Johny Depp to the part.
Sounds a bizare choice, sure he could pull off the extravert funny side of Freddie, but playing a man dying of Aids must be something beyond his limited acting abilities. Thoughts?
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"no joke" and "Daily Mirror" in the same sentence?
Wave goodbye to your credibility
Wave goodbye to your credibility
Limited acting abilities? He's playing his roles perfectly. But can he play a serious role? I don't know.
I still can't believe it, but it's an interesting thought. At least he looks like him.
I still can't believe it, but it's an interesting thought. At least he looks like him.
He looks like him in the mustache years, but wouldn't pull of the '70s cool leather Freddie :) I say get someone hotter like Johnny Depp even though he doesn't really look like him.
I'll believe it when I see it...given the source of the article. Sacha Cohen is a great comedic characte r actor. But, as was established before? Can he play a serious role? It will be interesting to see. Personally I don't want to see him playing Freddie.
http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1558875/story.jhtml
I've put this on the other thread too.
Sorry, but Ali G won't be playing Freddie
I've put this on the other thread too.
Sorry, but Ali G won't be playing Freddie
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]The prophet's song wrote: [/QUOTENAME]http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1558875/story.jhtml
I've put this on the other thread too.
Sorry, but Ali G won't be playing Freddie[/QUOTE]
Interesting how that website says that, while I saw this from a link on Yahoo's front page:
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Yahoo.com's stupid people wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sacha Baron Cohen, the man behind the insanely funny but at times disturbingly homophobic Borat character, has been cast to play late, great, flamboyant Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in an upcoming biopic, tentatively titled Freddie: Cultural Learnings Of England For Make Benefit Glorious Music Of Queen. OK, we're just kidding about that title. But the rest of it is true. It does seem like an odd choice--what, was Mika or the Darkness's Justin Hawkins unavailable? Or what about the dude in this video? But then again, when we think about how well Borat rocked that infamous unitard-thong (something we can imagine Freddie wearing onstage back in the day), or how ably and eerily Sacha can morph into his fouffy alter-ego character, Bruno, we think maybe, just maybe, he can pull it off. All we know is we cannot wait to see Borat's rendition of "Fat-Bottomed Girls" on the silver screen... [/QUOTE]
That was funny, but I guess it's not true anymore. lol
I've put this on the other thread too.
Sorry, but Ali G won't be playing Freddie[/QUOTE]
Interesting how that website says that, while I saw this from a link on Yahoo's front page:
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Yahoo.com's stupid people wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Sacha Baron Cohen, the man behind the insanely funny but at times disturbingly homophobic Borat character, has been cast to play late, great, flamboyant Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in an upcoming biopic, tentatively titled Freddie: Cultural Learnings Of England For Make Benefit Glorious Music Of Queen. OK, we're just kidding about that title. But the rest of it is true. It does seem like an odd choice--what, was Mika or the Darkness's Justin Hawkins unavailable? Or what about the dude in this video? But then again, when we think about how well Borat rocked that infamous unitard-thong (something we can imagine Freddie wearing onstage back in the day), or how ably and eerily Sacha can morph into his fouffy alter-ego character, Bruno, we think maybe, just maybe, he can pull it off. All we know is we cannot wait to see Borat's rendition of "Fat-Bottomed Girls" on the silver screen... [/QUOTE]
That was funny, but I guess it's not true anymore. lol
This could go on and on for years with different names being put forward (I guess it already has!)
I remember the Evita film and who will play her doing the rounds for years before Madonna was finally chosen and even heard of.
I remember the Evita film and who will play her doing the rounds for years before Madonna was finally chosen and even heard of.
would mika be any good do you think?
How about Ron Jeremy?
or tom selleck
Will any actor be accepted by the fans? I thought Val Kilmer was good as Jim Morrison and Joaquin Phoenix was just awesome as Johnny Cash. But I see myself sitting in the cinema mumbling: "Oh no it was not like that at all .. this is the wrong year... this is the wrong place" etc etc. Maybe we will have a thread "The 1001 mistakes in the Freddie biopicture" on Queenzone.
And they could call the movie:
'Cultural learnings of Freddie Mercury for make benefit glorious nation of Tanzania'.
'Cultural learnings of Freddie Mercury for make benefit glorious nation of Tanzania'.
Baron Cohen could probably pull the role off. However no-one has thought about the problems associated with his height! He is at least 6 4' which is a good 7 or 8 inches taller than Freddie was.
My question is - How tall would the actor who plays Brian May have to be for the band to look anything like they did?
Is the guy who played Jaws in the Bond films still alive?
My question is - How tall would the actor who plays Brian May have to be for the band to look anything like they did?
Is the guy who played Jaws in the Bond films still alive?
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Bob M wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Baron Cohen could probably pull the role off. However no-one has thought about the problems associated with his height! He is at least 6 4' which is a good 7 or 8 inches taller than Freddie was.
My question is - How tall would the actor who plays Brian May have to be for the band to look anything like they did?
Is the guy who played Jaws in the Bond films still alive?[/QUOTE]
Yep. At 7'2."
Give him a shoulder length brown curly wig and a guitar and he's all set. LOL!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/beautifulsoup/KielJPEG.jpg
My question is - How tall would the actor who plays Brian May have to be for the band to look anything like they did?
Is the guy who played Jaws in the Bond films still alive?[/QUOTE]
Yep. At 7'2."
Give him a shoulder length brown curly wig and a guitar and he's all set. LOL!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/beautifulsoup/KielJPEG.jpg