Rami Malek Is Freddie Mercury In First Look Pic From Bryan Singer’s BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

“Any way the wind blows”

Rami Malek is rock icon Freddie Mercury in this first look photo from the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox/New Regency film BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.

Tuesday, September 5, which would have been the singer’s 71st birthday. He died at the age of 45 in November 1991.

The Bryan Singer-helmed film chronicles Queen from 1970, when Mercury teamed with Brian May and Roger Taylor, until the band’s performance at Live Aid in 1985, six years before the singer died of complications from AIDS.

Their 1975 single, “Bohemian Rhapsody“, was number 1 for nine weeks (and a further five weeks in 1991) and is the third biggest selling single of all time in the UK. The band’s 1981 Greatest Hits album is the biggest selling album in UK history with 6.0 million copies sold by 2014. The band’s 1991 compilation Greatest Hits II is also one of the UK’s top ten biggest sellers of all time, with 3.8 million copies sold by 2012.

It returned to the chart at number two in 1992 following Freddie Mercury’s death in 1991, as well as its appearance in the film WAYNE’S WORLD, which revived its American popularity.

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY is scheduled to be released in theaters on December 25, 2018.