See a trailer for Queen Budapest, filmed in 1986, which will open in cinemas this fall<\/p>\n
\n\tA concert film of Queen<\/a>\u2018s majestic 1986 gig in Hungary, the band\u2019s final filmed performance with Freddie Mercury<\/a>, will be hitting the biggest possible screen this fall. Queen Budapest will open on Oct. 7 with screenings at more than 2,000 cinemas, including some IMAX screens. Full ticketing details are on a bespoke website<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tThe film\u2019s trailer opens with Mercury alone on the stage doing one of his famous \u201cAaayyoo\u201d calls. It then shows the group playing \u201cWe Will Rock You,\u201d and Mercury in a crown and cape (no shirt of course) as snippets from their performances of \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d and \u201cWe Are the Champions\u201d play. It features scenes of Mercury strutting, bassist John Deacon having a smoke, audience members waving sparklers, guitarist Brian May crouching with his guitar, and about half a dozen partly-consumed beers on Mercury\u2019s piano. \u201cThis is a night we\u2019re never gonna forget,\u201d Mercury comments in one scene.<\/p>\n \n\tScreenings will feature a new interview with May and drummer Roger Taylor in which they reflect on the concert.<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to the aforementioned songs, the band played a hit-filled 25-song set list that included \u201cUnder Pressure,\u201d \u201cAnother One Bites the Dust,\u201d \u201cI Want to Break Free,\u201d \u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love,\u201d and \u201cRadio Ga Ga,\u201d among others. They also performed an acoustic rendition of a Hungarian folk song, \u201cTavaszi Sz\u00e9l Vizet \u00c1raszt.\u201d The concert took place on July 27, 1986 at Budapest\u2019s N\u00e9pstadion for a reported 80,000 ticketholders and an estimated 45,000 additional fans listening outside the stadium.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tThe footage, shot on 35mm by what producers call \u201cHungary\u2019s best cameramen,\u201d has been restored to 4K quality using equipment at Peter Jackson\u2019s Park Road Post Production facility in New Zealand. The producers also remixed the soundtrack, which will come out on CD and a triple-LP release in addition to the Blu-ray and DVD releases of the film on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n \n\tQueen concluded their Magic Tour with a concert on Aug. 9, 1986, in their native U.K. It would be the last time Mercury performed with the band prior to his death in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"See a trailer for Queen Budapest, filmed in 1986, which will open in cinemas this fall A concert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[671,9,24,63,666,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-330348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-freddie-mercury","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}