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Blue Velvet

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He has played a mankini-wearing Khazak and an Austrian fashion journalist with a penchant for anal bleaching, but Sacha Baron Cohen's next role might be his most outrageous yet – and for once, it's not fictional.
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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality... Not really a Queen fan, but that's inspired casting.


The Borat star will play Freddie Mercury in a film about the singer's glory days as the frontman of Queen, the band's guitarist Brian May confirmed today.

"We have Sacha Baron Cohen, which will probably be a shock to a lot of people, but he's been talking with us for a long time," May told the BBC's Hardtalk show.

The untitled film is being written by Peter Morgan, the British screenwriter behind The Queen, Frost/Nixon and The Last King of Scotland, producers said.

The film will focus on the years leading up to what was arguably Queen's greatest moment: its performance at the Live Aid charity concert at London's Wembley stadium in 1985 .

The producer Graham King said shooting would begin next year. His GK Films is working on the project with Tribeca Productions, founded by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal, and the Queen manager Jim Beach. No director is attached yet.

The project had the co-operation of Mercury's estate and the three surviving members of Queen, a spokeswoman for GK Films said. May and Queen drummer Roger Taylor will oversee the musical content of the film, which will feature both original Queen music and Mercury solo music.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/17/sacha-baron-cohen-mercury-film
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Would you go and see this movie, or maybe rent it?

Best Queen tune: Somebody To Love
 
I heard this earlier today, it really is fantastic casting.

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I agree, it is great casting. I just wonder if he has the chops. Comedic actors have surprised in the past before though, so I won't count him out.
 
I have seen Sacha Baron Cohen in "different" roles before (like his truly strange but fantastic role in Burton's version of Sweeney Todd) and I think he could be great in this. Also, he has an amazing likeness to Mercury.

As a Queen fan, I'm looking forward to this. :)
 
This looks good! I'm not a huge Queen fan but I'd definitely want to see it.

Favorites tunes are: We Are the Champions*, Somebody to Love, Killer Queen, and Bohemian Rhapsody.

*Even though it's sooooo overexposed.
 
Should be interesting. I hadn't seen anything on this, thanks for posting it BV.
 
Seems like it is good casting. I'm not such a fan to go see it in the theater. Will wait until it comes to Redbox and then watch it.
 
About 30 mins from my place is the flat that Freddy Mercury died in; the walls and garden door outside covered in scribbled messages from fans, and about a year ago, I was sitting outside at a restaurant table in Fulham, right next to Brian May and his wife, Anita Dobson. He was nursing a beer, was wearing shorts with the bandiest legs and hugest mop of hair... I didn't interrupt their evening for an autograph.

Worst Queen hit: Fat Bottomed Girls
 
Blue Velvet said:
About 30 mins from my place is the flat that Freddy Mercury died in; the walls and garden door outside covered in scribbled messages from fans, and about a year ago, I was sitting outside at a restaurant table in Fulham, right next to Brian May and his wife, Anita Dobson. He was nursing a beer, was wearing shorts with the bandiest legs and hugest mop of hair... I didn't interrupt their evening for an autograph.

Worst Queen hit: Fat Bottomed Girls
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You should have approached him and asked if he was the famous astrophysicist Brian May. You could have discussed his research for his PhD. :)
 
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