Bohemian Rhapsody 2: What Brian May has stated about Freddie Mercury seq | Films | Entertainment | EUROtoday

Back in 2018, Queen’s Freddie Mercury biopic defied the critics, happening to make over $900 million worldwide.

After profitable extra Oscars than some other film the next 12 months, together with Best Actor for Rami Malek, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than discuss of a sequel began.

After all, Bohemian Rhapsody concluded with Live Aid in 1985, and Queen nonetheless had six extra years with Freddie, tenaciously preventing AIDS till the very finish.

Back in 2022, Sir Brian May informed the Daily Express he discovered the concept of engaged on a sequel “exciting” and “very attractive” and even appeared to love our suggestion that the movie might be referred to as The Show Must Go On.

Then a 12 months later, the Queen guitarist informed Sirius XM: “There’s fact to the truth that we discuss it. We’d adore it — we might like to make a sequel. It’s discovering the appropriate script. It really took us 12 years to seek out the appropriate script for the primary one, so I assume it is no shock that it isn’t straightforward. There is a narrative there — an terrible lot occurred [in Queen’s career] after the tip of the Bohemian Rhapsody film script, when you like, story — however whether or not it might make a movie, I do not know. We do not wanna put it on the market or make it until we’re positive that it is gonna work and it is gonna transfer individuals in the identical method as the unique movie did. The brief reply is we might like to, and we have not discovered a method of doing it but.”

He then went on to say how he’d like to carry the unique forged who performed Queen again. Sir Brian added: “It’d be good to get the identical 4 guys again to play us as a result of they’re so stupendous, all of them. They’re simply nice. I imply, Rami’s superb. Gwilym [Lee]who performed me — unimaginable. I imply, he fooled my children. My children thought I voiced the half, however he did all of it.