Eight years ago, Bohemian Rhapsody stormed the box office, making over $910 million worldwide.

The Freddie Mercury Queen movie biopic, which was Best Picture-nominated, would go on to win four Oscars, including Best Actor for Rami Malek.

Given the film concludes with a recreation of 1985’s Live Aid performance, could a sequel be on the cards?

After all, Freddie really filled his final six years to the brim with various solo projects and three more Queen albums.

Sir Brian shared exclusively with the Daily Express: “Well, don’t think we haven’t thought about it, because we have and we do. But it needs a plan, it needs a story, it needs a beginning and a middle and end, and we don’t have it at the moment. We’ve looked at various ideas. It took a long time for us to get the plan together for Bohemian Rhapsody, I’m talking a long time. Probably 12 years from the moment that we thought about doing it to the moment when he came out. But at the moment, we don’t see it, and we don’t want to half do it. We don’t want to do it until we’re utterly convinced that it’s going to be the magnificent thing that it should be. So, no, at the moment, no.”

Suggesting it could only ever be called The Show Must Go On, the Queen guitarist pointed out that it was the name of the band’s second stage musical that never saw the light of day.

The 78-year-old said: “Well, Ben Elton wrote us a sequel for the We Will Rock You, theatrical musical. And we actually got as far as workshopping it and put on a couple of performances. But it never saw the light of day, it just never got the green light due to certain disagreements within the band and the organisation.”

Asking Roger about Bohemian Rhapsody 2, it became clear that a version of the sequel that has been under consideration takes place after Freddie’s death in 1991.

The Queen drummer told us: “[Bohemian Rhapsody 2] is not in serious conversation, it’s sort of rooted. Part of me thinks we have this one movie that was so liked, and I thought, ‘Well, we did really well with our shot. Let’s not spoil it’, because most sequels don’t live up to the original, with The Godfather as the exception. And, you know, obviously, I think it would involve having a lot of flashbacks to the Freddie character. It wouldn’t have the same immediate appeal if the film was made without his character in it. It is very difficult to pull off. So yeah, we’ve thought about it, and until somebody comes up with a very, very workable solution, it’s not on the cards.”

The first film took 12 years; it’s only been eight, so plenty more time to get a sequel off the ground. After all, The Show Must Go On…