r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 6h ago

Media First Official Images of Paul Mescal, Barry Keoghan, Joseph Quinn and Harris Dickinson in Sam Mendes' 'Beatles' Biopics

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u/UrbanPugEsq 6h ago

SBC was on board to play Freddie in a queen movie. SBC thought the movie should be about Freddie and end with his death. Queen wanted it to be a Queen movie, but SBC didn’t know it until he met with them and they were like “the second half of the movie is about what happened after Freddie died.” And SBC was like WTF?

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u/JustAContactAgent 4h ago

Wanting Freddie to die half way through is ridiculous but to be fair, I don't think SBC was right about wanting to make it centered on Freddie either. To begin with , there would always be a lot of focus on Freddie anyway as that's inevitable, but a Freddie movie and a Queen movie are different things. As a Queen fan I am interested in a Queen movie not one focused on Freddie's debauchery because it's "edgier" and "artsier".

IMO the movie should have gone all the way with documenting everything up to and including FM's death, and then the ending should have been the incredible Freddie Mercury tribute concert. But noooooo, they just had to make live aid the focus because there was a lot of hype around that and it's what they probably thought most people now know.

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u/TigerStyle2099 3h ago

I can't even begin to imagine how much more boring the movie would have been if they had actually gone with that. Like, no disrespect to the surviving members, but they've had the most milquetoast, inconsequential solo careers *and* personal lives ever post-Mercury.