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Sacha Baron Cohen is back at the helm of a film about the life of Queen singer Freddie Mercury.

The Borat star, 43, quit the project two years ago over “creative differences” with band members Brian May, 67, and Roger Taylor, 65.

But Queen’s manager Jim Beach announced an “important breakthrough” in the seven-year “saga” of getting the biopic made at the The Artist and Manager Awards 2015.

He said Baron Cohen had returned and will write and direct as well as star.

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Mercury died in 1991 of Aids complications, aged 45.

The long-awaited film has been dogged by problems since 2010.

First 007 actor Ben Whishaw, 33, had to step in when Cohen pulled out, and then director Dexter Fletcher also abandoned the project when he and Graham King, who is producing the film for Sony, did not see eye to eye about the direction of the project.