Mr Robot star Rami Malek will play flamboyant Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in a forthcoming biopic about the band titled Bohemian Rhapsody, it was revealed yesterday.
Bryan Singer, known for his X-men movies, is in talks to direct the film, according to Deadline.
![Rami Malek (right) as Elliot Alderson, in the television series Mr Robot.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/SIYSYQVBLJVG7YJXMZ3HIXYHAI.jpg?auth=545e98b464ed592762a1ae4841638e74ec29c6ad23cae9393762ee873748431e&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
The project itself, however, has been in development for the past eight years. Borat and Grimsby star Sacha Baron Cohen was previously attached to the role, but left after a disagreement with an unnamed surviving member of Queen.
"A member of the band - I won't say who - said: 'You know, this is such a great movie because it's got such an amazing thing that happens in the middle,'" Baron Cohen told US radio host Howard Stern (via the Radio Times) in an interview earlier this year.