Biopic Elton John. As Elton John, Taron Egerton gamely does a middleweight impersonation, more comfortable with the lighter side: better at the tiaras than the tantrums. Image caption Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman.
Elton himself has obviously given his blessing. It stars Taron Egerton as Elton, and the actor actually sings in the film. Rocketman, the Elton John biopic, clocks in at two hours and one minute.
A child prodigy, he was all set for a career as a classical pianist until he fell in love with pop music as a teenager and then left home.
One of them is, of course, John's music.
Like other recent music biopics such as Bohemian Rhapsody, Rocketman has been made with the approval and input. Image caption Taron Egerton as Elton John in Rocketman. Sir Elton John has been living in the public for nearly all his entire adult life.