Bohemian Rhapsody: Roger Daltrey praises Rami Malek’s Freddie Mercury but slams THIS

In the last year, cinema-goers have been treated to music biopics Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman. Now The Who’s Daltrey has revealed he’s still trying to get one made about late drummer Keith Moon. The 75-year-old singer has revealed he intends for the film to be the “antithesis of Bohemian Rhapsody” after the Freddie Mercury movie was criticised for going too easy on the wilder aspects of the late star’s private life. According to Metro, Daltrey said: “I will do the Keith Moon film and that will have a low rating to, that will be the antithesis of Bohemian Rhapsody.”

In a new Instagram post, May wrote: “Some of the comments on my previous post about the ‘accuracy’ of the Bohemian Rhapsody film make me realise that many people don’t understand what ‘accurate’ means in the context of a biopic – rather than a documentary. 

“Stop and think about it. You’re trying to portray 20 years in two hours of screen time. And you have a story you want to tell about the emotional and spiritual journey of a man in the context of his family and friends, and his entire life’s work. 

“You want to tell the story honestly, decently, without avoiding any important issues, yet without gratuitous prurient detail. You want it to make sense to people of all races, colours, sexual proclivities and ages. And, crucially, you want it to be entertaining, emotionally inspiring, or else why bother ?! 

“Think about the vast amount of situations and millions of words actually spoken in that 20 years. There is no way to do tell your story without compressing time scales, moving events around, condensing multiple conversations over years into single scenes, amalgamating characters, and basically LEAVING 99.9 per cent of what actually happened OUT !!!”

May added: “A few armchair critics think, by comparing the film’s narrative with scraps that they’ve picked up from press stories, unauthorised biographies, etc, that they see ‘mistakes’? 

“I can assure you all that not a single, word, action, emotion in Bohemian Rhapsody is there by accident, or for any other reason than to provide an insight, a clue to the big picture, a brush stroke in a coherent portrait of a man and his life and dreams. 

“The fact that this movie has become by far the most successful biopic in history tells me that we – or actually the whole BR team – on the whole – got it right.”

Bohemian Rhapsody is out now on physical and digital home release.