If Freddie Mercury were still alive - would Queen be doing soundtracks today?

[Jet Beetle]

If so - which ones?

I still vote for the song HAMMER TO FALL from "the Works" to be in Thor - It's a god rock song and Freddie even sounds like he's saying "Hammer of Thor" sometimes.

YouTube - Queen - Hammer to fall

Peter Jackson said in an interview on VH1 when he was younger he would picture how the movie for Lord of the Rings would look and he couldn't help but hear Brian May's background music playing during the fight sequences.

What other films do you think would have been perfect for Queen to lay tunes down for.

Here are a few examples in case you don't remember just how pumped their music got you in a movie.

YouTube - Queen- 'Princes Of The Universe'

YouTube - Queen - One Vision (Iron Eagle Version)

YouTube - Flash Gordon movie intro - Queen

one of my favorites - right after the line "Stop all engines, repel boarders"
YouTube - Flash Gordon Hawkmen vs Ajax

couldn't find just the isolated scene but who can forget it
YouTube - Shaun of the Dead (Queen-Don't stop me now)

YouTube - Highlander Movie - New York - Queen - (rba)

YouTube - Highlander Music Video: Queen - Gimme the Prize

 

[Mechamaniac]

Considering that the "A Kind of Magic" album was for years the unofficial soundtrack to the original Highlander film, my guess is that yes, they'd still be doing soundtracks.

It still blows my mind that they wrote "Who Wants to Live Forever" in the back of a limo. That song is probably my all time favorite.

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

I would have said Superman Returns, but nah.

I don't rightly have an idea on what he would write, but all I know is there will NEVER be another band like Queen.

 

[Jet Beetle]

Considering that the "A Kind of Magic" album was for years the unofficial soundtrack to the original Highlander film, my guess is that yes, they'd still be doing soundtracks.

It still blows my mind that they wrote "Who Wants to Live Forever" in the back of a limo. That song is probably my all time favorite.

Did they really? I don't know that story.

I do know when Freddie passed it was one of the songs he requested at his wake - along with It's a long hard life and In My Defense.

Not that I've seen the movie but I can see them getting a call for something like Cowboys and Aliens or Transformers -

 

[MooCriket]

They could have written the soundtrack for Charlie Sheen's life.

 

[Jet Beetle]

They could have written the soundtrack for Charlie Sheen's life.

"I'm going slightly mad"

 

[El Duderino]

If you've seen the interviews with Freddie music was his life, I doubt he'd ever stop doing it. If he were alive there's no doubts in my mind he'd still be doing something musical.

 

[rodneyfaile]

I bet he would have been an actor in a few movies.

 

[tullfan81]

I was just a kid when freddy died, but growing up listening to classic rock and 70's-mid 90's music in general, I have to say Freddy was probably the best male vocalist rock had ever seen and might be the best the genre will ever see.

And now I'll be watching highlander tonight...

 

[nickytea]

I'd actually see Thor if they laid down some "Hammer to Fall."

And, of course, I'd have him score my remake of "Metropolis."

Some of my favorites:

YouTube - Queen - Save Me
YouTube - Queen - 'Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy'
YouTube - Queen- In The Lap of The Gods Revisited

 

[Sluis Van Shipyards]

I love Queen. I forget what the album was, but the one my parent's had back in the 80s (it was probably older) I wore out from playing the Flash Gordon song.

 

[Wes R]

Did they really? I don't know that story.

I do know when Freddie passed it was one of the songs he requested at his wake - along with It's a long hard life and In My Defense.

Not that I've seen the movie but I can see them getting a call for something like Cowboys and Aliens or Transformers -

I so would have loved to see them do the Transformers theme. As much as I love cheap trick their cover of the theme from the 1986 movie they used in Transformers 2 was terrible. I think they might still be doing some soundtracks, they'd be touring for sure. Paul Rogers does a good job as front man now, i always loved Bad Company, but he's no Freddy.

 

[Jet Beetle]

I so would have loved to see them do the Transformers theme. As much as I love cheap trick their cover of the theme from the 1986 movie they used in Transformers 2 was terrible. I think they might still be doing some soundtracks, they'd be touring for sure. Paul Rogers does a good job as front man now, i always loved Bad Company, but he's no Freddy.

I thought LION covered the theme for the 86 movie - unless I missed something.

 

[NoTsOsErIoUs]

Peter Jackson said in an interview on VH1 when he was younger he would picture how the movie for Lord of the Rings would look and he couldn't help but hear Brian May's background music playing during the fight sequences.

Well Queens perhaps heaviest song would have made Lord of the Rings far more exiting. Can't belive no-one has done a mash up of these yet.

YouTube - Queen | Ogre Battle (Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1975)


Queen II best album by far.

 

[darthgordon]

Well, his music has been part of soundtracks even after he died...

Wayne's World
Shaun of the Dead

...and a bunch of lousy movies I've never seen.

 

[Jet Beetle]

Well, his music has been part of soundtracks even after he died...

Wayne's World
Shaun of the Dead

...and a bunch of lousy movies I've never seen.

He was alive when they leased BR for Wayne's World - he never got to see it though. But I loved their original music done for a film. I'm wondering that now we have directors making movies who grew up on Flash Gordon, Highlander and consider those movies classics if the demand or request for Queen to add something to modern films would be higher - something like Sucker Punch looks like it would have been complimented by Brian's guitar and Freddie's voice.

And as for Queen 2 -- yep, AWESOME album

 

[Wes R]

I thought LION covered the theme for the 86 movie - unless I missed something.

Yeah Lion played on the 86 soundtrack originally but i meant it would have been nice to have Queen redo it for the new crap Transformer movies. They keep hiring bands nobody heard of to be hip and cool and they butcher the song so badly it's always a soundtrack exclusive.

 

[I Five]

Queen and White Stripes threads here at the same time....two of my favorite bands! :cool

I was a kid when Flash Gordon came out, bought the album and begged my parents to take me to the movie! I thought it would be like Star Wars....I was so wrong! It scarred the crap out of me :lol