And while Rocketman appears in many ways to be cut from the same cloth as that crowd-pleaser, Taron Egerton has said that the film doesn’t hold anything back and there are hints in this trailer to that effect.
Can this film be both a crowd-pleasing hit and an honest look at the life of a rockstar?
Bohemian Rhapsody was criticized for being a safe crowd-pleaser (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing), omitting certain things about Freddie Mercury’s life and glossing over his sexuality.