Sacha Baron Cohen has been cast to play Freddie Mercury in an upcoming film based on British band Queen. Guitarist Brian Mays told the BBC “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.”
The film will follow the band’s rise to fame and what many see as the pinnacle of their career, Queen’s performance at Live Aid in 1985. The event was held simultaneously at London’s Wembley stadium and Philadelphia’s John F. Kennedy stadium, and broadcast to over two billion viewers in 60 countries.
The currently untitled film is set to begin production next year, and British screenwriter Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon) is writing the script.
Maybe Cohen’s brother Erran will make a cameo, too.
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