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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: tombogan03884 on September 17, 2010, 01:15:30 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100917/ap_on_en_mu/eu_people_baron_cohen
LONDON – "Borat" star Sacha Baron Cohen has been signed up to star in a movie about flamboyant rock star Freddie Mercury, producers said Friday.
Peter Morgan, who wrote "The Queen," is working on a screenplay about the frontman of the band Queen, who died of AIDS-related causes in 1991.
The as-yet-untitled film will climax with Queen's barnstorming appearance at the 1985 Live Aid concert in London.
The announcement was made by GK Films, which is producing with Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions and Queen Films.
Production is due to begin next year, and a director has yet to be chosen.