Bohemian Rhapsody
Fearless lives forever
Country
Production
Budget
$52 000 000
Box office
$903 655 259
Director
Actors
Rami Malek, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander, Mike Myers, Aaron McCusker
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Anthony McCarten
Producer
Robert De Niro, Bryan Singer, Graham King, Roger Taylor, Jim Beach, Brian May, Peter Oberth, Arnon Milchan, Dexter Fletcher, Jane Rosenthal
Camera operator
Newton Thomas Sigel
Composer
Artist
Aaron Haye, Thomas Phillips-Howard, Charlotte Hutchings
Audition
Susie Figgis
Editing
Short description
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
What's left behind the scenes
- Sacha Baron Cohen was cast as Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), but he had to leave the project due to disagreements with Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. The entire film concept with Cohen in the lead role was scrapped after May expressed dissatisfaction with it being a biopic solely about Mercury, and not about the whole band.
- In December 2017, three weeks before the end of filming, Bryan Singer requested a break because his mother was very ill. 20th Century Fox decided to fire the director and replace him with Dexter Fletcher. He took over as director for the last 14 days of filming and oversaw editing, but according to the rules of the Directors Guild of America, only Singer was credited in the titles.
- The official soundtrack to the film contains several Queen hits and 11 previously unreleased recordings, including five tracks from their 21-minute live performance in July 1985. It was released on compact disc, cassette, and digitally on October 19, 2018, by Hollywood Records.
- Preparation for filming began in July 2017, and filming started in London in September.
- When casting for the role of Freddie Mercury (1946-1991), Rami Malek sent a demo reel to the other members of Queen. When he arrived to perform live, it turned out his reel hadn’t uploaded, and the musicians hadn’t seen it, so he could now see their first reaction to his vocal and stage skills.
- The film owes its title to the composition “Bohemian Rhapsody” from the album A Night at the Opera (1975), written by Freddie Mercury. The most accurate translation of the song’s title is “Bohemian Rhapsody,” not “Bohemian.”
- The very first scene filmed was the concert at “Wembley.” Since the 1985 “Wembley” no longer existed, an exact replica was built on an airfield north of London. When Bob Geldof and the producer of Live Aid visited the set, they were amazed by the accuracy of the reconstruction.
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