Queen Guitarist Wants Johnny Depp To Play Freddie Mercury
Queen guitarist Brian May is backing Johnny Depp to play late frontman Freddie Mercury in an upcoming biopic. May says, “Discussions are at an early stage. Johnny Depp is fantastic. He would be a worthy counterpart for Freddie on screen.”
The surviving members of the band - May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon - are all involved in the project which will tell the life story of the singer, who died of an AIDS-related illness in 1991.

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Report: JOHNNY DEPP Tipped For FREDDIE MERCURY Film Role - Dec. 22, 2006
Louise Jury of the U.K.'s The Independent reports that "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp is being lined up to play a rock star for real in a biopic of the late QUEEN frontman Freddie Mercury.

Robert de Niro's company, Tribeca Productions, is said to be behind the project, which Brian May, the QUEEN guitarist, confirmed was in development. "Discussions are at an early stage," he said on his web site.

May described Depp as "fantastic." "He would be a worthy counterpart for Freddie on screen. I don't think I can say any more right now," he added.

De Niro has known Brian May and QUEEN's drummer, Roger Taylor, since they met at the Venice Film Festival in 1996 and ploughed his own money into their hit stage musical, "We Will Rock You". The musical was originally going to be about the band but the surviving members decided that would be too embarrassing for all involved.

The proposed biopic would tell the life story of Mercury, who was born in Zanzibar in 1946 and died from complications of AIDS in 1991, the day after confirming he had the disease.

His real name was Farrokh Bulsara but he adopted the name he was best known by at school in India, where he grew up. His family settled in England when he was in his teens. He performed with several bands before co-founding QUEEN in 1971.


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You missed the boat, boo. We had a thread on this earlier this week.

Rainn Pryor should play Phil Lynott, if that ever becomes a biopic.

TommyRoss said:

Here's the planned movie on Phil Lynott. I dunno, but I hate movies when the actor looks nothing like the original person. Phil Lynott was a pretty man and this dude doesn't look anything like him. It's like asking Denzel to play Prince. Rainn Pryor - ha ha cute - but at this point I'll take her over this other dude.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416061/

LQ

origmnd said:

damn, that's mean but funny!

LadyQ said:

I guess that his acting skills are more important than his physical similarities.
But Rainn, has the facial construction of Phil, just add that 'stache and shes him.

oh man...

origmnd said:

Yeah, getting that chin right is gonna be a challenge. Now there's a plan, she can play him and the other guy can do the voice over. There has to be some pretty ass black man that can speak in Irish dialect, that plays bass, that can do Phil. Maybe they can have open casting. Now I'd like that job.

LQ

LadyQ said:

oh oh oh...thats the hot guy from CSI...but your right, he looks nothing like him.

sosgemini said:

He's hot, but he's a different kinda hot than Phil was. Most movies about someone's life they get someone who looks like them, but here the people doing the movie is like saying "all black folks look alike" when they just pull anybody out to do the role and you feel like they didn't try hard enough. I'm still mad at HBO for that crap they made about Hendrix. When you have an artist who is hot and a big part of their success is based on their looks and sex appeal then you're gonna expect an actor that looks as closely like them as possible.

LQ

LadyQ said:

who played hendrix?

Already a thread http://www.prince.org/msg/8/212660