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“We’re making an announcement about that very, very soon,” said John when asked about the film. “We have a director on board, and then it’s just going to be a matter of getting the script exactly the way we want it. Lee Hall has written a script – he wrote Billy Elliot – and then we’ll start trying to cast and plan.”

When asked who would be playing him, meanwhile, he replied: I don’t know. I’ve got a wish list of people. No. 1 on my wish list is Justin Timberlake, because he played me before in a David LaChapelle video of ‘Rocket Man’ and was superb.
It was announced in September that Elton John would serve as the executive producer on Rocketman. The film is expected to use musical sequences, centred on the singer’s hits, to tell the story of a child prodigy who became a global star, and is the second collaboration between the singer and Hall after they worked together on the musical adaptation of Billy Elliot.

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