from www.brianmay.com on reports of Johnny Depp portraying Mercury;
Here's a bit from article:But you're right about one thing ... Johnny Depp is fantastic. He would be a worthy counterpart for Freddie on screen. I don't think I can say any more right now.
Daniel Day Lewis to play Brian May (I'm hoping anyway.)PIRATES Of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp is in line to play Freddie Mercury in a Hollywood biopic.
The movie, planned for next year, is being developed by Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions and will focus on Mercury's life, from his birth in Zanzibar in 1946 to his AIDS-related death in 1991, when he was just 45.
Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor will have the final say over the music in the film - which will see Depp 43, miming to Mercury's original vocal recordings.
Mercury's long-term girlfriend, Mary Austin said: 'I can't think of anyone better to play Freddie.'