Monday, July 22, 2013
MAMA MIA, LET ME GO: Sacha Baron Cohen has left the long-stalled Freddie Mercury biopic because the members of Queen have script approval, and they apparently want a happy PG movie while Baron Cohen and the writers and directors brought in (Peter Morgan, David Fincher, Tom Hooper) all assumed that this would be the R-rated true story.
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I'm not sure I can see how Mercury's life could be made PG, but, um, ok. I'd be curious to hear what story they want told.
ReplyDeleteI'd assume a happy-go-lucky rags to riches story.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I read, the plan was to end the movie before Mercury contracted AIDS, which then means no need to go into his sexuality. I agree with the majority of the commenters on the article - Cohen would have been a fantastic Mercury and tell the whole story or don't bother telling it at all.
ReplyDeleteBasically, "they formed, they recorded cool songs, they played Live Aid, the end"?
ReplyDeletePeople can disagree with the overall quality of Oliver Stone's "The Doors," but can anyone really make an argument that it would have been better if it had been toned down and turned into a PG singalong?
ReplyDeleteOf course, they likely don't need the permission of the band to make a biopic, but I suspect the band won't license the music without approval of the script, and a Queen/Mercury biopic without Queen music? Nope.
ReplyDeleteJackie Jormp-Jomp, or, as an AVClub commenter suggested: "Monarch: The Frankie Quicksilver Story."
ReplyDeleteYeah. That's about everything significant that happened in his life, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteG---AMMIT. This makes me angry AND sad. Sangry?
ReplyDeleteNow I'm trying to come up with a proper 13-word Denis Leary summary of a Mercury biopic.
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