| NickGreen 28.03.2015 09:16 |
Sacha Baron Cohen rejoins troubled Freddie Mercury biopic hmm..mm apart from seeing 'Freddie' ..you know what i mean? ..he will look like him (apart from apparent height differences) .. no doubt act like him and be convincing.. apart from that novelty....its all a bit 'stars in their eyes' .. i feel the same way about this i did about that god awful princess diana movie with naomi watts or any other made-for-tv quality biopic that goes nowhere new....how can it, freddie was a private person and i cant see mary austin scribbling away all the untold secrets and everyone elce is either dead, recluse (or just happy away from the limelight) or said everything already..probably. ...freddie goes from a rock star into a camp pantomime dame? i remain unconvinced this is a good thing, i just cant help but think 'just leave it alone..stop it!' Link |
| NickGreen 28.03.2015 09:20 |
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| noorie 28.03.2015 10:40 |
^^^^ I totally agree! I dislike all biopics. How can you condense anybody's entire life in two hours? How can anybody know exactly what the subject was thinking, feeling, at any given moment? Biopics are just Hollywood style drama, conjecture, and fantasy (even the so-called 'gritty' ones - actually especially the so-called 'gritty' ones). In the end the original subject just becomes a character from the actor's and director's imagination. And millions of people believe it is the truth and congratulate the actor for having so brilliantly portrayed the subject!!! Especially during award season! Sorry, but this entire biopic thing really sets me off. End of rant. |
| sgs8789 28.03.2015 12:23 |
According to Brian the "announcement" was a joke by Jim Beach. See the info below from Brians Soapbox dated 3-28-15: **Sat 28 Mar 15** VERY INTERESTING THURSDAY EVENING Direct link We had a very interesting Thursday evening. Our illustrious manager, Jim Beach, was to receive an award from the Music Manager’s Forum (MMF) - the Peter Grant award for outstanding achievement in managerial skills. Very well deserved, we thought, and Roger and I turned up to proudly present him with his silver trophy, the top-of-the-bill event of the night. I actually presented the very first of these awards, to Peter Grant himself, way back in 1999, and thereafter the award was named after him, so it was nice to make the full circle, and present to our own brilliant manager. There’s a report of the evening here, link ... ger/061326 but it doesn’t mention a small joke that Jim threw in during his acceptance speech. He said that, in response to enquiries about the progress on the Freddie feature film, that Sacha Baron Cohen had been re-engaged to write, produce, and direct the film, as well as starring in all four major roles ! I’m afraid some folks might have taken it seriously ! But the evening went very well, including some nice live performances. Cheers Bri |
| Annette 28.03.2015 15:25 |
I am glad about the denial. I don' t like the idea of a Freddie Mercury biopic either. The script would be a product of fantasy written by some hollywood authors for commercial reasons and Sasha Baron Cohen or any other name: No actor would be right for the role of Freddie or the other members of the band. I can't imagine a cast for that film. |
| master marathon runner 28.03.2015 15:45 |
At least the heading will knock "queens Christmas message: 'we need a change of government '" off the top o' the page. Sick of it. |
| bucsateflon 28.03.2015 16:05 |
Hope it will be more about the band, not only Freddie. |
| brENsKi 28.03.2015 17:57 |
this thread is a ticking clock...counting down to gerry wading in with the usual sychophantic drivel tick....tick....tick |
| *goodco* 28.03.2015 19:23 |
Speaking of obsessive....... |
| kosimodo 29.03.2015 07:26 |
If anyone could do it, its Sascha. Not the singing ofcourse:) |
| Costa86 29.03.2015 09:50 |
This joke, which was taken seriously by a few of the idiotic websites which try to pass as journalistic ventures (e.g. dailymail.co.uk), is just another egg splattered on the face of this plan to make a Freddie biopic. I think it's a sad disaster. Freddie does deserve a film to be made on him, and I can completely understand how keen Brian and Roger are to give him the tribute he deserves, but it is evident that them, and whoever else is taking care of this, is way out of their depth when it comes to making a biographical motion picture. I find it hard to believe that Tribeca Productions are enthusiastically involved in this, and if they are, it doesn't say much about this company, despite it having been co-founded by De Niro. This project has been in the planning stages since at least 2006, when it was first mentioned in the media, and when Johnny Depp was said to have been being considered to possibly star as Freddie Mercury. Is it possible that the people taking care of this are so bloody incompetent, that they're making out the choice of who is to portray Freddie as being of such epic complexity, that it deserves to be dragged on without any definitive progress being made for nine bloody years? This goes beyond wanting to give Freddie the best treatment. It stinks of cretinous amateurism. It might not be completely unheard of for film planning to drag on, or be 'in development', for so long, but it's a disgrace that a biopic of one of the most important persons in modern music has now been reduced into a parody of serious planning. This daft joke by Beach is just the cherry on the cake, and the fact it was taken seriously and reported as factual news just adds to the charade which this has become. |
| CPL593h 29.03.2015 11:41 |
The best Freddie (or Queen) biopic is NO biopic. I hate them, all of them. I remember when I saw Oliver Stone's The Doors in the early '90s how I disliked it. It was basically the story of an alcoholic junkie and that's was it (never saw it again, never wanted to). Everything about the music was just a vague background story. Let the movie industry do three or four Steve Jobs biopics a year and let Queen alone. Pretty please. |
| andyb1968 29.03.2015 12:28 |
Total bollox !!!!!! |
| hobbit in Rhye 29.03.2015 13:19 |
I'm not too excited about Biopic idea either (I can never finish watching that movie about Kurt Cobain, what's its name again? And "A beautiful mind" is a horrible biopic), BUT I don't want to shut the door for something we don't know yet. Biopic can be (very) interesting, admittedly only 0.01% of the cases, that is in the case of The Imitation Game. Bloody brilliant movie (movie wise, not science or history wise). I think that is the first time they portrayed a mathematician to be a mathematician, not a hollywood wanker. At least the biopic of Freddie can do no harm. We'll always have real image of Freddie around. |
| k-m 29.03.2015 17:00 |
Costa86 wrote: This joke, which was taken seriously by a few of the idiotic websites which try to pass as journalistic ventures (e.g. dailymail.co.uk), is just another egg splattered on the face of this plan to make a Freddie biopic. I think it's a sad disaster. Freddie does deserve a film to be made on him, and I can completely understand how keen Brian and Roger are to give him the tribute he deserves, but it is evident that them, and whoever else is taking care of this, is way out of their depth when it comes to making a biographical motion picture. I find it hard to believe that Tribeca Productions are enthusiastically involved in this, and if they are, it doesn't say much about this company, despite it having been co-founded by De Niro. This project has been in the planning stages since at least 2006, when it was first mentioned in the media, and when Johnny Depp was said to have been being considered to possibly star as Freddie Mercury. Is it possible that the people taking care of this are so bloody incompetent, that they're making out the choice of who is to portray Freddie as being of such epic complexity, that it deserves to be dragged on without any definitive progress being made for nine bloody years? This goes beyond wanting to give Freddie the best treatment. It stinks of cretinous amateurism. It might not be completely unheard of for film planning to drag on, or be 'in development', for so long, but it's a disgrace that a biopic of one of the most important persons in modern music has now been reduced into a parody of serious planning. This daft joke by Beach is just the cherry on the cake, and the fact it was taken seriously and reported as factual news just adds to the charade which this has become.I completely agree with you in terms of how appalling it has become. I think Freddie himself would be overwhelmed by the scale of this disaster. A complete farce. Btw, I can't believe they turned down David Fincher according to some rumours. It's like turning down Mercury himself during an audition. |
| HighWideandHandsome 29.03.2015 21:15 |
hobbit-in-Rhye wrote: Biopic can be (very) interesting, admittedly only 0.01% of the cases, that is in the case of The Imitation Game. Bloody brilliant movie (movie wise, not science or history wise). I think that is the first time they portrayed a mathematician to be a mathematician, not a hollywood wanker. I loved The Imitation Game. Fantastic movie and a good example of a biopic done right. |
| NickGreen 30.03.2015 06:48 |
phew it aint true afterall... i still hate the idea |