I SEE A LITTLE SILHOUETTO OF A FILM, SCARAMOUCHE, SCARAMOUCHE WILL YOU BOOK ON FANDANGO?
A biopic about the famous, successful, larger than life and slightly ambiguous lifestyle-leading Freddie Mercury is about as obvious a slam dunk as bait for Oscars as worms are for fish. It’s been a long time in the making-Sasha Baron Cohen was long said to be in the running-but Sony have taken a big step forward by hiring a director, with a leading man waiting in the wings too.
The Theory of Everything director Anthony McCarten has been hired to helm the film about the Queen frontman (which will be titled Bohemian Rhapsody because biopic are the last movies to get titles before the title person goes to lunch) and reportedly Ben Whishaw, Q in the latter Daniel Craig Bond movies, is still the top choice to play the iconic rock star. Whishaw has been linked to the role for a while, and though that was a director or two ago, it seems he’s still wanted. A range of problems, from creative differences with Cohen to Whishaw’s availability to, presumably, Sony just being Sony, but now things appear to be moving again with McCarten on board.
CREED’S NEED TO DO TWO
After the sad tyre fire that was Fantastic Four, it’s good to see that talented young actor Michael B. Jordan is getting out of 2015 very well and all he had to do was team back up with Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler and not a director having a studio-induced breakdown. Creed has turned out to be a critical favourite and was a good box-office success over Thanksgiving. What better way to celebrate an American holiday I suppose than by going to see a movie about the son of this guy?
Jordan is already talking about the possibility of reprising his role as Adonis Creed. As mentioned in Variety, Jordan is very open to the idea, saying
“A character so rich as this, and the world he’s in, I want to see what happens to him next and what he does,” Jordan said. “Especially the way it ends off, it’s pretty cool. I think with success and time and circumstances, it would be exciting to come back and work with (co-stars) Sly (Stallone) and Tessa (Thompson) again.”
Creed is not yet out on my side of the Atlantic, but from what I’ve been hearing (lots of reports of audience cheering) I’m very excited. Let’s hope Creed continues to succeed and before long we’ll be seeing Michael B. Jordan training up a mountain and telling Vladamir Putin that if he can change, then Putin can change, EVERYBODY CAN CHANGE!