Work is well underway on Bohemian Rhapsody, the Bryan Singer-directed biopic of Freddie Mercury and rock supergroup Queen. The latest people to join the already stuffed cast are Aidan Gillen and Tom Hollander.

Mr. Robot's Rami Malek is playing Mercury in a film that charts the birth of the band and then tracks their rise until the iconic performance at Live Aid in 1985, six years before Mercury's death.

Ben Hardy, Gwilym Lee and Joseph Mazzello are already also aboard as fellow Queen members Roger Taylor, Brian May and Roger Deacon, while Lucy Boynton is Mercury's longtime companion Mary Austin and Aaron McCusker has the role of his lover, Jim Hutton.

Gillen is playing John Reid, who managed the band from 1975 until 1978, before handing off to Hollander's Jim Beach, the man who shepherded their careers for years after that. The film, a longstanding project for producer Graham King, will be out in the UK on 28 December next year.

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