Ready Freddie? New Trailer for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ is here

Erik Anderson July 17, 2018

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The second trailer for 20th Century Fox’s Freddie Mercury biopic Bohemian Rhapsody starring Rami Malek is here.

The new trailer opens up from the previous one with more performance footage and, more importantly, a bit more exploration of Mercury’s sexuality. After the first trailer was accused of ‘straightwashing’ Mercury too much and hedging his actual cause of death from AIDS (the first synopsis simply referred to it as a “life-threatening illness”). It seems 20th Century Fox has learned a bit from that initial backlash. Not to say this is an over the top super gay trailer by any means, just a bit more than before and a big improvement as a trailer overall.

Official synopsis:

[box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury. Freddie defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound. They reach unparalleled success, but in an unexpected turn Freddie, surrounded by darker influences, shuns Queen in pursuit of his solo career. Having suffered greatly without the collaboration of Queen, Freddie manages to reunite with his bandmates just in time for Live Aid. While bravely facing a recent AIDS diagnosis, Freddie leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. Queen cements a legacy that continues to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.[/box]

On top of that the film was already weighted down by the controversy over original director Bryan Singer (X-Men, X-Men 2) abruptly leaving the production 3/4 through and being replaced by Dexter Fletcher. Singer will retain solo director credit on the film due to DGA regulations but appears nowhere in the press materials.

Bohemian Rhapsody was written by three-time Oscar nominee Anthony McCarten (Darkest Hour, The Theory of Everything) from a story by McCarten and Oscar and Emmy nominee Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost/Nixon, The Crown) co-stars Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Tom Hollander, and Mike Myers.

20th Century Fox will release it November 2nd. Here is the new trailer.

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Erik Anderson

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.

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), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) 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.