As announced by Deadline yesterday, Sacha Baron Cohen has officially signed on to play Queen’s late frontman Freddie Mercury in a biopic due to start shooting next year. The film will be scripted by Peter Morgan, who’s previously turned history into Oscar gold with Frost/Nixon and The Queen (the other one), and the good news is that the producers have actually nailed down rights to the band’s songs, so this is definitely a go. What isn’t clear yet is whether Cohen will actually be doing any singing—though our guess would be no—but he certainly looks the part, he’s had experience with assless pants, and of course there’s that famous Live Aid appearance where Mercury shit in a bag, and other Borat-related jokes.