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this project has had an array of talent involved, but like a lot of projects, it’s had a terribly difficult time making it to the big screen for one reason or another. the biopic’s troubles seem to stem from the remaining members of queen, because the film they want doesn’t sound like the movie most queen fans, including cohen, actually want to see.
there are amazing stories about freddie mercury. the guy was wild. he was living an extreme lifestyle [of] debauchery. there are stories of little people with plates of cocaine on their heads walking around a party. it [becomes] a less interesting movie, but you’ve got to remember that they want to protect their legacy as a band, and they want it to be about queen. and i fully understand that. [after] my first meeting, i should never have carried on because a member of the band —i won’t say who— said, ‘this is such a great movie, because such an amazing thing happens in the middle of the movie.’ i go, ‘what happens in the middle of the movie?’ he goes, ‘freddie dies.’ i go, ‘so you mean it’s a bit like ‘pulp fiction,’ where the end is the middle and the middle is the end? that’s interesting.’ he goes, ‘no no no.’ so i said, ‘wait a minute. what happens in the second half of the movie?’ and he said, ‘well, we see how the band carries on from strength to strength.’ and i said, ‘listen, not one person is going to see a movie where the lead character dies from aids and then you carry on to see [what happens to the band].
they asked me to write the movie, but i said, ‘i don’t know how to write a biopic.’ so i got in peter morgan (rush), [but] they didn’t like that. i brought in david fincher (gone girl) who wanted to direct it, then tom hooper (the danish girl) —they were very specific about how they wanted to do it. listen, at the end of the day, it really was an artistic difference.
it was reported that peter morgan’s draft of the script concluded with queen’s 1985 performance at live aid, which is six years before mercury passed away in 1991, due to bronchial pneumonia resulting from aids. i actually heard morgan’s script was quite good, but perhaps it wasn’t sugarcoated enough for brian may, because how do you say no to a freddie mercury biopic directed by david fincher, starring sacha baron cohen, and written by peter morgan?

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