‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ poster and first look
20th Century Fox must be feeling pretty good about its Freddie Mercury biopic starring Rami Malek because the film’s poster dropped today along with a first look clip with the actual trailer coming tomorrow. Fox originally had a holiday release planned for the film (as they did with their blockbuster musical The Greatest Showman last year) but moved it up to November 2 last month.
Promising ” the music you know” but “the story you don’t,” the clip (at a scant 20 seconds) obscures Malek from the front as much as possible until a brief couple shot of Queen’s performance at Live Aid.
Here is the sneak peek and the poster.
Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.
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He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.
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