Freddie Mercury movie soon. Queen rocks!

In an earlier post, I commented that a movie based on Freddie Mercury's life will be fantastic--not only because of the music by Queen, but also because of the so many fascinating contextual backdrops of his life.

Apparently it is the beginning to the end that waiting game.  BBC reports that a team has been assembled to start filming next year:

Ali G and Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is to play Freddie Mercury in a film about Queen, the rock band's guitarist Brian May has confirmed to the BBC. ...
Frost/Nixon scribe Peter Morgan is writing the screenplay, he added.
The film, which will focus on the period leading up to Live Aid in 1985, will begin shooting next year.

Cool.