Elton John Tunes Up Rocketman, An Element Film About His Legendary Music Career

EXCLUSIVE: Rocket Pictures partners Elton John and David Furnish are starting their most ambitious movie project, one which will inform the storyline of John’s illustrious musical career. They're joining with Billy Elliot scribe and playwright Lee Hall on Rocketman, that they are calling a biographical musical fantasy which will weave together John’s existence and the music. Rocket Pictures Steve Hamilton Shaw and Furnish will produce. John is going to be executive producer and can play an energetic role in developing a film which will follow his existence story from the child piano prodigy (who by age 11 won a scholarship towards the Royal Academy of Music) to some youthful guy who rebelled against his strict upbringing, used crazy costumes and grew to become a worldwide icon who teamed withsongwriter Bernie Taupin money records that nearly any musical artist of his era. Rocketman will mark the 2nd collaboration for John and Hall. When Hall modified the 2000 feature Billy Elliot for that West Finish, John authored the score for any production that gone to live in Broadway and won the Tony Award for the best Musical. They’re planning an inventive method to cover John’s existence and career: One device is to feature choreographed sequences using Johns greatest hit tunes. Individuals tunes will participate the film package and can drive a tale which will cover the rough spots in John’s journey of self-discovery. Rocketman is a significantly different type of biopic, Shaw stated. It will likely be as unique as Eltons existence, told inside a non-linear and hyper-visual manner which will transport people with the many intense encounters, some wonderful, some not, that assisted define Elton being an artist, music performer and guy. UTA is packaging the film, searching to put it together and sign a director as John and the cohorts try to determine who should play him. There may very well be different stars playing him at different age range. Stars that pop into my thoughts are Guy Pearce and Ewan McGregor. The project may come as Rocket Pictures is originating from the three dimensional animated family film hit Gnomeo & Juliet and it is developing Will Gallows and also the Lizard Bellied Troll, a movie thats being written and directed by Shrek 2s Kelly Asbury. Rocketman becomes the 2nd large-screen biopic of the legendary rock singerpenned by a b-list author. GK Films is continue using the Peter Morgan-scripted film about Full frontman Freddie Mercury, with Sacha Baron Cohen mounted on take part in the late singer. Rocket Pictures is repped by UTA, Hall by CAA.