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The Freddie Mercury biopic is a go!

The film will revolve around the late Freddie Mercury who was the frontman of the hit rock band Queen.

The band’s guitarist, Brian May, is now releasing new details about the film, which will have Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen playing Mercury.

May confirmed,via his website, that the biopic should be ready for release by early 2014.

He also went on to say that production of the film, is on schedule even though it started later than expected.
The biopic is being penned by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Morgan, who also spearheaded the movies The Queen and Frost Nixon.

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