Rami Malek's Freddie Mercury Was Almost In Rocketman

Rocketman tells the tale of Elton John while Bohemian Rhapsody tells the story of Freddie Mercury.  It turns out both movies were almost interwoven.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood. Ryan Seacrest Marvel movies known for their
incredibly broad universe and how the film's cross pollinate, where
the stars of X Men movies might make cameos in
and Avengers or Spider Man moving and so forth. You
don't typically think that would happen and a rock and
roll biopic, but it almost did in the new Elton
John film rocket Man, where Rommy Malick nearly showed up
its queen frontman Freddie Mercury role that it earned him

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in Oscar in Bohemian Rhapsody. The moment was possible because
of director Dexter Fletcher, who was called and replaced Brian
Singer after he was fired midway through the shooting of
Bohemian Rhapsody. Dexter also ended up getting hired to helm
Rocketman and tells Gay Star News, I had an idea
at one point where Elton's in a restaurant with his mother.
I thought Freddie could be at another table and they'd
wave to each other. It would have been amazing, but

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it didn't come to pass. It would have been a
little too known. I'm not looking to set out to
make a cinematic universe Rockemman's out now. That's direct from Hollywood.