Freddy Mercury biopic: Director Bryan Singer hasn't shown up on-set in a week, rumors abound.

"Twentieth Century Fox Film has temporarily halted production on Bohemian Rhapsody due to the unexpected unavailability of Bryan Singer," reads Fox's full statement. The crew received force majeure letters today, says one insider."

"Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Singer failed to return to set after the Thanksgiving holiday break, leaving producers nervous about the state of the production and talking about potentially replacing him."

"In a statement to the BBC, a rep for the director says his absence is due to "a personal health matter concerning Bryan and his family." However, sources say that filming on the biopic has not been easy. For example, insiders tell THR that producers and his star had grown tired of Singer's behavior, which saw him routinely show up late to set. Another source has said that a cinematographer had to step in and direct during a previous "non-showing."

Translation: A story is about to break and he's having a mental breakdown? https://t.co/qmPzBOP8zL
— Jordan Ruimy (@mrRuimy) December 2, 2017

About a month ago I wrote this for The Playlist:

As Harvey Weinstein‘s day of reckoning is speeding toward him like a bullet train, what’s even more fascinating about the current purge happening in Hollywood, with one new case happening after another like a never-ending domino-split, is that stories we heard about years ago, which were eventually buried away by top-notch damage control teams, are finally making their way back into the fray and this time with a vengeance.

Right now, there’s no way you can bury any story that has to do with this topic. Take for example the case of Bryan Singer. A storm is slowly but surely brewing over the writer-director’s rumored past. It feels like it’s just around the corner and ready to explode into the zeitgeist. In fact, many are just waiting for the bomb to come down, which means he has, surely, been lawyering up, preparing for the worst and rounding up his damage control team. I mean, why wouldn’t he?

After directing the Oscar-winning hit “The Usual Suspects,” Singer was a hot commodity in Hollywood. However, only a year after winning the statuette, in 1997, a 14-year-old extra accused the director of asking him and other minors to film a shower scene naked for “Apt Pupil.” The suit was dismissed for insufficient evidence.

Since then, rumors have always been abounding in Hollywood about Singer, but not many “victims” would come forward. Did the “Apt Pupil” incident scare people away? It wasn’t enough to scare actor Michael Egan III whom, in April of 2014, accused Singer of sexual assault in an incident that occurred in 1999. Singer had allegedly drugged and raped Egan, who was a minor, in Hawaii and Los Angeles at the time of “Apt Pupil.” Singer denied the accusations, proclaiming them to be “outrageous, vicious, and completely false.” The suit was withdrawn by Egan, but another surfaced from a British man alleging similar behavior around the time of “Superman Returns.” Nonetheless, Singer continued making movies.

However, earlier this month, a series of tweets appeared from a man named Justin Smith, that alleged that Singer sexually assaulted him in the early aughts. The tweets have since been deleted, according to The Daily Wire, they read as follows:

I first met #BryanSinger in 2000. My boyfriend was one of his best friends, so I had many interactions with him. From the first time I met him, he was always on something. He also constantly hit on me, always asking me to show him my dick or ass. (1/14)