ENTERTAINMENT: 'Borat' to Play Freddie Mercury

Borat mastermind Sacha Baron Cohen will play Freddie Mercury in a biopic about the Queen frontman, Billboard reports. The untitled film will focus on the years before Queen's landmark 1985 performance at a Live Aid concert in London. It begins shooting next year and has the blessing of the three surviving members of the band. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS complications in 1991.