The Queen will perform at Oscars – Variety

Queen will perform at the Oscars Sunday, announced today the Motion Picture Academy on social media. This decision, which is not surprising, stems from the resounding success of "Bohemian Rhapsody", the informative film about the group and his late singer, Freddie Mercury.

The band now performs as Queen + Adam Lambert, with two of the original four members, guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor, under the direction of former American Idol actor, Adam Lambert , which has been applauded by critics in its leading role in recent years. Bassist John Deacon has not played with Queen for many years.

As previously indicated by VarietyWe know that the producers of the television channel contacted the film and group representatives at the very beginning of the planning process to try to get Queen for the first niche of the series. Several weeks ago, sources close to the situation indicated that this would not happen, but it is clear that the situation has reversed in the meantime.

This is a rare case where an Oscar musical performance could be considered one of the biggest successes of the series between the film's resounding success ($ 212 million in the US so far and $ 855 million in the world) and the fact that Queen herself is invariably popular (the song that gave her title "Bohemian Rhapsody" was named in December as the most-broadcast song to date of the 20th century).

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The addition of Queen + Lambert has the effect of loading more music into a show that was trying to get rid of it. The Academy recently surrendered and acceded to a popular outcry by allowing the top five nominations of original songs to be aired, after it was learned that they planned to include only Lady Gaga and Kendrick's numbers. Lamar. It is said that some of the lesser-known nominated songs will be shortened to 90 seconds – a fate that will surely not hit Gaga, Lamar or, of course, in their flagship spot, Queen.

While "Bohemian Rhapsody" takes considerable liberties with the band's story, the power of the band's music and a haunting performance by Rami Malek (who represents Mercury) have overshadowed most critics.

Variety "Malek, the 37-year-old Egyptian-American actor of" Mr. Robot ", assumes the role of Freddie Mercury as he was born. Dark and insinuating, though neither as big nor as serpentine as Mercury, Malek has been outfitted with a set of false front teeth, a reenactment of Freddie's overbite that works pretty well, though it's often a little distracting because it seems to be a space between pearly whites – it's like seeing a Freddie who has his teeth clenched. That said, Malek ends up watching and living the room to a remarkable degree. Looking at "Bohemian Rhapsody", we still feel like Freddie Mercury is standing in front of us. "