Fast forward to Thursday, March 26, 2015. Queen's manager, Jim Beach announced at the 2015 Artist and Manager Awards that Sacha Baron Cohen was returning to the project not only to star as Freddie Mercury, but would also write & direct the biopic as well. After the news spread through the internet like wildfire, Queen's guitarist, Brian May issued a statement the following Saturday saying that what Beach had said was nothing more than "a small joke" (You can read May's full statement here on his website).
Speaking of which, it took TWO WHOLE DAYS for somebody to clear up that none of this was true? It's not like Brian May's statement was a 5 page long legal termed PR memo, hell even this very piece you're reading has more words. It makes me wonder if there's really more to this whole thing than just Jim Beach telling a joke. I'm not getting my hopes up though, I've had my soul crushed by this biopic far too many times to count now.