Robert De Niro (2-L) with the surviving members of rock group Queen at the run-through of a new musical about the group, packed with their greatest hits. PHOTO - TASR/EPA
LONDON – Hollywood superstar Robert De Niro and British rock legends Queen pledged „We Will Rock You“ with a futuristic new musical packed with the supergroup‘s greatest hits. „I think it is going to be terrific,“ De Niro said after flying in from New York for a run-through of the show that opens in London in May.
And the survivors of Queen were convinced that the ghost of Freddie Mercury would be smiling benevolently down on the production. Queen‘s flamboyant lead singer died of AIDS in 1991. The $10.7 million musical „We Will Rock You“ has taken six years to bring to the stage. It all started at the 1996 Venice film festival where a series of short films about Queen were screened before De Niro‘s movie „Sleepers“. Band members Brian May and Roger Taylor met De Niro at the party afterwards and the idea was born. „That‘s how long things take,“ De Niro told reporters at a London press conference.
Reuters
