If the trade industry reporting is to be believed, the comedian was planning a hard-R version of Mercury's story, likely with lots of on-screen sex and an extended telling of his illness and death—an arena rock version of Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra.
Stephen Silver, www.splicetoday.com•Splice Today•Nov 1, 2018
When none other than Steven Soderbergh needed $5 million to make Behind the Candelabra ....no studio would finance because they all said it was ‘too gay’”…