I searched but didn't see a dedicated thread for this. Trailer released today. Watch the first full trailer for the joyous Elton John biopic 'Rocketman'
Looks great! It made me pull out my ol'e copy of 11/17/70 and gave it a few spins! EJ (and the boys) Rocks!
Won’t have the same poignancy as the Queen/Mercury film. But it looks fun. Time for a David Bowie biopic.
I'm hoping the trailers really aren't a good representation of the film. I already have big misgivings about redone music and no Elton. These fantasy sequences and levitating audiences make it look like some unholy marriage of La La Land and Across the Universe.
Well Across the Universe was a fantastic film. This could benefit my some major fantasy rather than just a bio pick that people bitch about a small few facts changed around to make the film work better.
There have been plenty of musical biopics where either the actor does the singing or someone else who is not the artist does — Walk the Line, Backbeat, La Bamba, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Lady Sings the Blues, The Doors (in part), The Buddy Holly Story, Control... did Jamie Foxx sing in Ray? If anything I think it’s more common than it is to have the actor lip sync the original singer a la Bohemian Rhapsody.
I loved Across The Universe, as did my wife, brother and my nieces. But then we're not Ultra-Orthodox Beatleites, and have no problem with the Holy Writ being reinterpreted. The trailer gave me chills, and I can hardly wait to see it.
Bohemian Rhapsody used Marc Martel for most singing parts. The singing is embarrassingly bad in the trailers. The tone, the phrasing, the style... all wrong. This looks to be better done with Justin Timberlake as EJ.
I'm looking forward too it. Elton John had a hand in casting the actor playing him and says he's very happy with the singing according to Giles Martin. Here's a clip of Giles talking about it.
The trailer looked terrific - and I'm looking forward to seeing the imaginative style the filmmakers chose to tell Elton John's story. Also - Elton's unafraid of telling his own truth and it's clear from the trailer the movie isn't shying away from Elton's darker and more controversial moments - his struggles with sexual identity, substance abuse, failed marriage, etc. ...and the man is still alive - happy and sober. As I see it, that IS a powerful and yes, even poignant ending. Dead rock stars are practically cliche...(haha).
Elton credits Kate Bush's vocal on Peter Gabriel's Don't Give Up with giving him the courage to seek sobriety. When Elton and his partner David were able to get officially married, Kate was a guest:
From an article in the Irish Examiner: "That record helped me get sober ... So she played a big part in my rebirth. That record helped me so much. I never told her that but it did." ... Elton's own struggles with addiction will be the subject of a new biopic following his decision to reveal the secrets of the diaries he wrote while in rehab, with 'Billy Elliot' writer Lee Hall penning the script. He previously said: "One day he took me to his house and opened a safe and he had all his private diaries that nobody had seen from when he was in rehab and left me there to read all his stuff. "But he's never commented once on the script, he hasn't interfered at all."