brianmaycom · 11m 11 minutes ago
8MAR HappyBirthday @RuTTaylor1 TIGER. 1991 born to DeborahLeng & @officialRMT http://tinyurl.com/nfa664m interview BMail
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:55 am
by infinite
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DrBrianMay · 8h 8 hours ago
Thanks "@Helena_2910 Congrats on winning UG Showdown. Glad I could further it a bit" - and THANKS TO YOU ALL ! Bri
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:56 am
by infinite
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brianmaycom · 1h 1 hour ago
#SOAPBOX "@UltimateGuitar Showdwn: Hve 2thnk folks who sprang 2my supprt. Honour2pair w @Dimebagofficial @DrBrianMay" http://tinyurl.com/ozp9u93
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:57 am
by infinite
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ultimateguitar · 5h 5 hours ago
.@DrBrianMay has issued a few humble words on winning the UG Showdown. This one's a must-read! http://bit.ly/1Got9bo
Our illustrious manager, Jim Beach, was to receive an award from the Music Manager’s Forum (MMF) - the Peter Grant award for outstanding achievement in managerial skills. Very well deserved, we thought, and Roger and I turned up to proudly present him with his silver trophy, the top-of-the-bill event of the night.
I actually presented the very first of these awards, to Peter Grant himself, way back in 1999, and thereafter the award was named after him, so it was nice to make the full circle, and present to our own brilliant manager.
but it doesn’t mention a small joke that Jim threw in during his acceptance speech. He said that, in response to enquiries about the progress on the Freddie feature film, that Sacha Baron Cohen had been re-engaged to write, produce, and direct the film, as well as starring in all four major roles ! I’m afraid some folks might have taken it seriously !
But the evening went very well, including some nice live performances.
Cheers
Bri
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 8:23 pm
by Sealuv
bebeg:7948 wrote:
vistadiva:7945 wrote:
bebeg:7939 wrote:
vistadiva:7926 wrote:So this on the Queen Fan Club site....
Queen News
Sacha Baron Cohen returns to Freddie Mercury biopic to star and direct.
Where are you seeing that? And just a few weeks ago Brian said it isn't true.
Our illustrious manager, Jim Beach, was to receive an award from the Music Manager’s Forum (MMF) - the Peter Grant award for outstanding achievement in managerial skills. Very well deserved, we thought, and Roger and I turned up to proudly present him with his silver trophy, the top-of-the-bill event of the night.
I actually presented the very first of these awards, to Peter Grant himself, way back in 1999, and thereafter the award was named after him, so it was nice to make the full circle, and present to our own brilliant manager.
but it doesn’t mention a small joke that Jim threw in during his acceptance speech. He said that, in response to enquiries about the progress on the Freddie feature film, that Sacha Baron Cohen had been re-engaged to write, produce, and direct the film, as well as starring in all four major roles ! I’m afraid some folks might have taken it seriously !
But the evening went very well, including some nice live performances.
Cheers
Bri
aww....and there you have it.......not surprised......
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2015 8:51 am
by Love2Lurk
This was just posted on Queen FB..... interesting article about Roger....
within the article he talks about the Fressie biopic....this sounds like Sacha is not in the process ....
Roger Taylor interview: The Queen drummer has written the soundtrack for British film Solitary
Tomorrow night at the Genesis Cinema in Mile End sees the UK gala screening of a new lowish-budget British film called Solitary, directed by Sasha Krane, the...
It was certainly a far more straightforward affair to produce than the long-gestating, Peter Morgan-scripted Freddie Mercury biopic. Originally, Sacha Baron-Cohen was due to play the flamboyant Queen frontman (who died in 1991 at the age of 45) but Taylor didn't think the Borat comedian was quite right for the role.
"In the end, we felt that Sacha, brilliant, subversive comedian though he is, wasn't really at heart an actor. We didn't want to make it funny. We wanted a brilliant actor who was going to move people in both directions, to tears and laughter and joy. We didn't really feel in the end that he [Baron-Cohen] was right. We wanted an amazingly good actor in the purest sense."
Ben Whishaw is currently attached to play Mercury. Taylor describes Morgan's script as "very good" and adds: "What we are coming up with now is really based on Peter's original screenplay. It is really based around his take on it which I think is a pretty grown-up take."
Taylor and fellow band member Brian May aren't "driving" the biopic but they do have a power of veto. "We are just saying, no, we don't think that is a good idea or we really like that."
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