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Klasien 03:12 pm UTC 07/25/13 |
| In reply to: | NJC: Borat Drops Out Of The Freddie Mercury Film - steven_stuart 02:03 am UTC 07/25/13 |
| Yeah I read that... Johnny Depp... NOOOOOO I love the guy... but not as Mercury! -K- > Brian May has artistic control over the new Freddie > Mercury film and he wants a PG version of Freddie's life, > so Sacha Baron Cohen has walked away. Its a shame because > Cohen would have been just right. May told BBC News that > he is hoping to replace him with Johnny Depp. Which won't > work, in my opinion. Freddie was a fairly beefy chap and > in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Depp was more like a > Michael Jackson type of person. I love Depp but he is not > right. > > Below is an article from The Guardian. Its interesting > that they mention the Harvey Milk and Liberace films but > not Brokeback Mountain. > > "Sacha Baron Cohen has quit a high-profile forthcoming > biopic of Freddie Mercury after "creative differences" > with the singer's band, Queen, reports Deadline. > > The Borat star apparently walked after his vision of a > racy treatment depicting Mercury's famously salacious > lifestyle was at odds with the more family-friendly > approach desired by the singer's erstwhile bandmates. > Cohen, who was due to play the flamboyant singer in a rare > dramatic role, had brought in Peter Morgan, the > Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Queen, to work on the > script and lined up film-makers of the calibre of David > Fincher or The King's Speech's Tom Hooper to potentially > direct. > > The film – which is based on the life story of one of the > most iconic singers of the 20th century, and with an > awards season-friendly team in the background – had all > the ingredients of a strong contender for Oscars glory. > Gay themes have never been more popular with film-makers > at a time when the campaign to recognise same-sex marriage > is making progress in the western world. Sean Penn won the > best actor prize in 2009 for his portrayal of the slain > gay politician Harvey Milk, and Michael Douglas would have > been a likely contender for next year's awards had Steven > Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra, not > fallen foul of Oscars rules by screening on TV first in > the US. > > Cohen also bears a strong resemblance to Mercury, who died > of Aids-related illness in 1991, although at 6ft 3in, the > British actor is a good six inches taller than the > Zanzibar-born singer. > > The Mercury biopic will go ahead with another actor. Its > producers include Graham King and Robert De Niro. | |
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