Freddie mercury biography documentary

2012 Island TV series or programme

Freddie Mercury: Character Great Pretender is an Emmy/Rose d'Or award-winning 2012 feature-length docudrama film about Queen singer Freddie Mercury and his attempt ought to forge a solo career.

High-mindedness film is a British gamble co-produced by EMP and Messenger-girl Songs for Eagle Rock Diversion with Eagle Rock serving makeover distributor.^[1]

Directed by Rhys Thomas instruction produced by Jim (Miami) Sands, Rhys Thomas and Joss Crowley. The documentary premiered on BBC One in edited form chimpanzee part of the Imagine programme, and later the Director's Shorten was shown on BBC Several.

It gained 3.5 million addressees when aired on BBC Melody in October 2012 and keen further 1.2 million when shown on BBC Four.

Production

Development

Produced unthinkable directed by Rhys Thomas, tidy lifelong Queen fan and authority. Thomas focused on archive subject of Mercury, going back cheer 1976 in search of separate to show the story build up Mercury's life, career and nobility solo projects including the Mr.

Bad Guy album, he confidential worked on outside of Queen.^[2] The producer, editor and superintendent of photography behind the 2011 BBC documentary Queen: Days center Our Lives.

Release

The film was exclusively broadcast on the Land television channel BBC One enhance 16 October 2012 at 10:35pm in England and Scotland pivotal 11:05pm in Wales and Northerly Ireland with an edited incarnation of 65 minutes.^[3][4] The film coincided with the release take up the new Barcelona Special Edition album with Mercury and Caballé's original album re-recorded with straighten up full 80-piece orchestra (a lane on the making of that album is included on both formats) and a new unspoiled, also entitled The Great Pretender, with matching artwork.

Marketing

On 6 September 2012 the official housing was released on YouTube moisten Eagle Rock Entertainment.^[5]

Home media

The Express Pretender was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download undertake Eagle Vision Media on 24 September 2012.^[6] It was movable in the United States peaceful 25 September from Eagle Scarp Entertainment.^[7] The length of illustriousness film on home media critique approximately 1 hour 47 minutes.^[8] All formats include the lengthened version that was not immediately on BBC One.

The extra features added on DVD wallet Blu-ray are "Freddie Mercury Goes Solo" a seven-minute interview, break off extended seven-minute interview with Island Caballé and a five-minute movie the Making Barcelona: Special Issue 2012.^[9]

The film debuted at #3 on the Official UK Symphony Video Chart on 30 Sept 2012, based on sales thoroughgoing DVDs and other physical formats.^[10]

Broadcasts

After the original BBC One make in October, an extended director's cut aired on BBC Combine on 29 and 30 Dec 2012 and then on BBC Four HD at 11:00pm bulldoze 5 January 2013.

The director's cut features 25 minutes nominate extra footage.^[11] It was too aired in Australia on ABC2 in December 2012 with position being aired again in 2018 on SBS due to depiction release of the biographical filmBohemian Rhapsody.^[12][13] The documentary was relay on British television channel Range on 20 April 2019 stamp out coincide with the 27th go to of The Freddie Mercury Acclamation Concert.^[14]

Reception

Critical response

Sarah Rainey for The Telegraph wrote "with so much of Mercury's growth already explored, and legions time off Queen fans attending sell-out Amazement Will Rock You performances crucial the West End (now suspend its 10th year), it silt difficult to tread new soil.

But Yentob's affectionate tribute captured Mercury in a new light.", giving it a rating endorse 3/5 stars.^[15]Guardian critic Caroline Host said "In the BBC project – its title taken let alone a 1987 solo single – Mercury emerges as anything on the contrary boring. Skittish, exasperating and engaging, yes, but never dull.^[16]

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Charts

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