Sacha Baron Cohen Drops out of FREDDIE MERCURY Biopic
Back in 2010 Sacha Baron Cohen attached himself to a biopic based on the life of Queen's Freddie Mercury. It was recently reported that he's dropped out of the project due to creative differences with the remaining band members.
Deadline reports, "Sacha Baron Cohen is just not seeing eye to eye with the remaining members of Queen who have script and director approval over that biopic on iconic lead singer Freddie Mercury."
It seems the actor has grown frustrated and is ready to move on and away from the project. At one point David Fincher or Les Miserables director Tom Hooper were looking to direct the film, but apparently that's not going to happen either because the band didn't like either of the choices, which is pretty surprising as they are both talented filmmakers. The script for the film was written by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen, The Last King of Scotland).
The film would have focused on the band's formative years, leading up to Queen’s appearance at Live Aid in 1985.
I was looking forward to seeing Cohen in this film. It's kind of sad that it isn't going to happen now.