“Buy yourself something flashy,” one character tells Taron Egerton’s Elton in the first scene from biopic
“How does a fat boy from nowhere get to be a song man?” The first trailer for Dexter Fletcher’s Elton John biopic “Rocketman” hit on Thursday, and teased the celebrated music star’s life story.
Taron Egerton plays John, who changed his name from the decidedly grandfatherly Reginald Dwight and took the advice to “Buy yourself something flashy.”
Jamie Bell co-stars as Elton’s longtime lyricist and writing partner Bernie Taupin, Richard Madden as Elton’s first manager, John Reid, and Bryce Dallas Howard as Elton’s mother Sheila Farebrother.
