Sacha Cohen Baron WON'T BE Starring, Writing, Directing, and Producing the Freddie Mercury Biopic After All

6:03 AM EDT 3/30/2015

The Queen's the band manager Jim Beach on Thursday night, March 26, at the Artist & Management Awards at London's Troxy used his acceptance speech for the Peter Grant award for outstanding achievement to announce: “You have probably followed the saga of the famous Queen-Freddie Mercury biopic which has been developing in Hollywood for the last seven years. An important breakthrough is that we have now managed to persuade Sacha Baron Cohen to write, produce, and direct this movie, and he has also agreed to star.” Apparently, he was only joking.Read more