Director Bryan Singer departed the project before it was completed, making the status of Bohemian Rhapsody appear risky.
And after some advocacy groups took umbrage with the lack of same-sex romantic plots for Mercury, the odds were stacked against the project.
There was a fair amount of controversy surrounding the biopic before its release, and it opened to a lukewarm critical success.
Bohemian Rhapsody’s success is particularly fascinating because it was not guaranteed.
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