Thursday 11th October 2012 by David Renshaw | Photos by WENN.com

Tags: Queen

Queen guitarist Brian May has confirmed that the biopic of Freddie Mercury's life is due to be released in 2014.

The filming schedule for the film, which will see Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen playing the lead role, was delayed but May stated on his website today (Oct 11) that he is hopeful the film will hit cinemas early on in the year.

Writing online, May said: "The pieces are all falling into place, though we are now on a slightly later schedule - filming is now scheduled to start in the Spring, with Sacha Baron Cohen playing Freddie."
 
Adding: "The film should be ready for release early in 2014. We did make some other plans, but they will have to stay under wraps for now. Being in Queen is – bizarrely – as full of surprising twists and turns as ever - 40 years since we first got together, and 20 years after losing Freddie. But of course Freddie is in so many ways very much alive. He must be wryly smiling somewhere!!!"

Brian May last hit the headlines when he launched a strong defence of the nation's badger population amidst new government rules over the culling of the animals in the wild.

Photos: Queen and Adam Lambert, live in London