Director Dexter Fletcher and star Taron Egerton reflected on their hit musical movie Rocketman, their non-biopic biopic of Elton John, in front of a packed room at Deadline’s The Contenders L…
, their non-biopic biopic of Elton John, in front of a packed room at Deadline’s The Contenders Los Angeles awards-season event.
“By throwing all of that out, we kind of freed ourselves up from being locked into this narrative,” Fletcher said told Deadline’s Dominic Patten. “I was really looking for emotional authenticity rather than chronological,” he added. That move for one allowed John’s songs to criss-cross timelines and provide greater context for his emotional evolution.
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