Bohemian Rhapsody 2 – Brian May’s long-awaited update on Freddie Mercury sequel

Back in 2018, Queen’s Freddie Mercury biopic defied the critics going on to make over $900 million worldwide.

After winning more Oscars than any other movie the following year, including Best Actor for Rami Malek, it wasn’t long before talk of a sequel started.

After all, Bohemian Rhapsody concluded with Live Aid in 1985 and Queen still had six more years with Freddie tenaciously fighting AIDS until the very end.

Last year Sir Brian May told us he found the idea of working on a sequel “exciting” and “very attractive” and even seemed to like our suggestion that the film could be called The Show Must Go On.

Now the 75-year-old has given a long-awaited update on the highly anticipated sequel.

Speaking with Sirius XM, Sir Brian shared: “There’s truth to the fact that we talk about it. We’d love it — we’d love to make a sequel. It’s finding the right script. It actually took us 12 years to find the right script for the first one, so I guess it’s no surprise that it’s not easy.

“There is a story there — an awful lot happened [in Queen’s career] after the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody movie script, if you like, story — but whether it would make a film, I don’t know.

“We don’t wanna put it out there or make it unless we’re sure that it’s gonna work and it’s gonna move people in the same way as the original film did. The short answer is we’d love to, and we haven’t found a way of doing it yet.”

He then went on to say how he’d love to bring the original cast who played Queen back. 

Sir Brian added: “It’d be nice to get the same four guys back to play us because they’re so stupendous, all of them.

“They’re just great. I mean, Rami’s amazing. Gwilym [Lee], who played me — incredible. I mean, he fooled my kids. My kids thought I voiced the part, but he did it all.”