Queen’s Brian May says a sequel to the blockbuster biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is not likely to be made.
“We’ve talked. Basically we think not, at the moment,” May told Rolling Stone. “Things could change, I suppose, but I think it would be difficult.”
The 2018 flick, which earned $1.3 billion at the box office and collected four Oscars, told the story of Queen up until the band performed at Live Aid in 1985. For dramatic effect, Bohemian Rhapsody pushed up frontman Freddie Mercury’s HIV diagnosis by two years.
May said making a movie about Mercury’s final years (he died in 1991) would not be “an uplifting thing to do.”
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The guitarist added: “I’m not saying it’s impossible because there is a great story there, but we don’t feel that’s the story we want to tell at the moment.
“We don’t really think there’s another movie there. That’s the long and the short of it. I think we should look somewhere else. There are other ideas that we had, but I don’t think a sequel will happen.”
Rumours that a sequel to Bohemian Rhapsody was in the works were sparked in March 2019 when Rudi Dolezal, who had no connection to the film, opined that there were talks of a second movie.