ADG Perspective

November-December 2018

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B O H E M I A N R H A P S O D Y | P E R S P E C T I V E 6 1 A. LIVE AID STAGE, SCALE MODEL. BUILT BY ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR CHARLOTTE HUTCHINGS, AND ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANTS NENEH LUCIA AND IMOGEN McGRATH. Flash Everyone knows the music. Their numerous hits have been ubiquitous on the radio for well over forty years. Sports arenas around the world play their infectious anthems as fans, young and old, belt out the lyrics. But the story behind the band is just as compelling as their music. So when I heard from producer Denis O'Sullivan in November of 2016 that Graham King's long gestating biopic Bohemian Rhapsody was rapidly moving forward and that director Bryan Singer, with whom I had worked earlier that year, wanted me to begin prep in London the following week, I was in. There were some minor complications to this proposition, particularly given that I was at that moment holding my three-day-old son and was more than one thousand miles from home, but still, I said yes. This was Queen!

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