He Could Be the Champion

This could be som’in’.

Sacha Baron Cohen was once attached to playing Freddie Mercury, right. But then he left the project because he had some concerns over the script being developed under the for-approval supervision of Mercury’s Queen bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor.

So the powers that be are turning to...Daniel Radcliffe.

Harry Potter as the lead singer of one of the world’s most famous rock bands?

I’m there.

Photo: NYMag.com.

Update: From the mouth of the babe himself, there is absolutely “no truth to it” that Radcliffe will portray the rock icon on film.

Not yet anyway?

“At all,” the actor thinks. He believes, like a good number of people out there that he himself acknowledges must exist, that he would be “completely wrong for th[e] part.”