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Elton John biopic producer speaks
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 27 September 2011
The producer of Elton John’s previously reported biopic, which is being made by the singer’s own production company Rocket Pictures, has been speaking to Deadline about the project. Steve Hamilton Shaw said that the film, entitled ‘Rocketman’ and written by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall, will be “a radically different kind of biopic”.
Hamilton Shaw: “‘Rocketman’ will be as unique as Elton’s life, told in a non-linear and hyper-visual manner that will transport people through the many intense experiences, some wonderful, some not, that helped define Elton as an artist, musician and man”.
Earlier this year, John told Chris Evans on his Radio 2 show: “I’d just like to make a really great film about my life story. We have a great script already by Lee Hall … It will be more of a fantasy – ‘Moulin Rouge’ type of stuff. Obviously, it’s not going to be your normal, run-of-the-mill film. My life’s been so surreal, from buying a football club to God knows what”.
