The History of Freddie Mercury

The writer of this is the guy named if I'm pronouncing this right, Anthony McCartan. And what he's done before, he's done a lot of kind of prestige. True stories. This movie also had a story by Peter Morgan. The director was fired three two thirds the way through. Originally it was a Sasha Baron Cohen was supposed to be playing, you know, Freddie Mercury,. Sasha Baron Cohen pulled out and I was I think it was on Stern where he described it was. He wanted the movie to be about Freddie Mercury's actual like dark private life.