"Bohemian Rhapsody" Film casts Rami Malek (per November 2016)

I know this is kind of old news as I alluded to from the copied/pasted forum post I made a bit ago.

But this guy, Rami Malek is going to play Freddie? I guess if it got the Queen guys approval...I mean they are having Adam Lambert as well (and Paul Rodgers a few years back), so I guess a skeptical casting can't be shocking.

And I imagine it can't be any worse than Penn Badgley playing Jeff Buckley.

But, it goes back to, if you're going to do it, get the right person for the role. And they obviously waited for many years here given how long Sacha Baron Cohen was attached to this thing. 10 years maybe or more.

Blech.

I suppose I don't want to fully judge a book by its cover. I may not care for him in Mr.Robot (which honestly, has become more popular than Psych probably, which is baffling. At least from an Awards standpoint. Probably because it's a drama. But it has Christian Slater even, a guy who seemed cursed with tv shows for many years. They always got canceled. Emmy/Globe? lol..never. But only since Tony Shaloub and Monk, has a  USA Network show/actor received so much attention, whereas year after year it seemed Psych and Roday deserved recognition and NEVER did.).

And he has a somewhat prolific career that goes back to Glmore Girls in 2004, so maybe this will surprise me.

But on the surface, I still wonder if there was someone else who would make more sense.

Maybe they won't fuck up the Syd Barrett and Keith Moon biopics that are also long overdue.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1727824/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

just saw Rami Malek,  the lead actor from USA Network's show "Mr. Robot" on Stephen Colbert. And I know it's kind of old news (November), but they talked about him starring as Freddie Mercury in "Bohemian Rhapsody" the Freddie biopic; the one that Sacha Baron Cohen was attached-to for a long time, but ultimately dismissed.

I honestly am not all that crazy about this casting, really, not any more than Sacha Baron Cohen. I suppose his height might be closer to Freddie's (SBC was WAY too tall), but he doesn't look all that much like Freddie (loosely, his dimples and facial expressions I guess I can see); I guess once they show some production pics, maybe that could help. 

But I'm still skeptical as I don't find Rami Malek all that amazing in the clips I've seen from Mr.Robot and some of his other work (Short Term 12, I honestly didn't find his character all that memorable in just revisiting some clips online).

Jeff Buckley Documentary - Everybody Here Wants You (2002)

Wow. I stumbled across this on Youtube earlier, and I must say, this is about as thorough a documentary of Jeff Buckley (including much about Tim) as I've ever seen. What I'm surprised about is never having seen it until now. Although I've seen a number of the clips, there's plenty I never recall seeing, namely the early footage.

But it does tell his story pretty thoroughly, save for the fact the details of how he ended up going to the Wolf River in Memphis in the 1st place; him and Foti were trying to find the studio where they were going to record at and couldn't find it. But Jeff grew frustrated and decided it would be better to go swimming instead of spending all night driving around. Thus they ended up at the Wolf River, etc.

They should officially release it. I'm sure his Mother would want to, anyway.

Of course, a few things pop into my head in seeing it.

1) This is really what people should see instead of



for one thing, Mark Rendall was the best actor in Hollywood to cast. Not only does he look a ton like Jeff, but he's a musician as well. But also in seeing that, it really fits the title Greetings From Tim Buckley and it appears to only be about Jeff doing this tribute show and his father Tim's limited time with Jeff. Because the David Browne book has WAY too much about Jeff's upbringing and his life after that show. Almost to the point, I wonder if this movie actually used much if any basis from Dream Brother at all.









Although I suppose Penn Badgley was a better choice than Robert Pattinson, but so be it.

But the other obvious thing about Everybody Here Wants You I can't help but think of is the obvious Kevin Gilbert parallel, and the desire to have his story out there in a documentary or movie of some kind. Hell I'd even go for just a published Biography that goes beyond the stuff written online. But as I have thought the last few years, it may be a life's goal if nobody ever else tries to make one, to make a Kevin Gilbert documentary. And the way this Jeff Buckley one was made 10 years ago, would be a good source. The problem being, with Jeff there was a lot more video footage and television exposure, but with Kevin, there wasn't all that much that I've seen. The best bet may be home videos shot by friends and his family, but getting access to that may be many jobs-and-a-half themselves.