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Freddie Mercury Film filming to start in the Spring 2013 (?)

posted 12 years ago by frauholle28
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**Wed 10 Oct 12**
QUEEN PLANS

Ah I promised news of yesterday's Queen band meeting. Well, it was just Roger and Jim Beach and myself we are a small cottage industry !! Our main agenda was the Freddie film which, I'm happy to tell you, is on course. Much of our discussion was about contractual things it's pretty complex . and determining who is responsible for what. The pieces are all falling into place, though we are now on a slightly later schedule - filming is now scheduled to start in the Spring, with Sacha Baron Cohen playing Freddie. The film should be ready for release early in 2014. We did make some other plans, but they will have to stay under wraps for now. Being in Queen is bizarrely as full of surprising twists and turns as ever - 40 years since we first got together, and 20 years after losing Freddie. But of course Freddie is in so many ways very much alive. He must be wryly smiling somewhere !!!

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[–] rumplegold30 12 years ago

I really wanted this movie to be made and released by 2013!

I just feel like they are never going to get the movie off the ground.

I really want Sacha to play Freddie but it seems like it's taking forever and now Sacha has two other movies he plans on making soon actually make that 3 movies.
Because he has Torrente, The James Bond spoof and The Lesbian movie.
I know that actors can do more than 1 movie at a time but it just seems they keep on pushing the Freddie Mercury movie back even further.
I do hope that this is the truth though about when they are going to start filming the Freddie movie. Because I just don't even want to believe that they are even trying to get it off the ground.

I have faith that it will start filming next year.

[–] kingelvis10 11 years ago

Thanks Brian,
Best wishes to you!