The Rocketman extended look coming out of CinemaCon begins with Taron Egerton as Elton John declaring, “I don’t want to just play dead people’s music,” before launching into writing some of his biggest hits.
You can see a video of Dexter Fletcher talking about playing Rocketman for Elton John at CinemaCon below, thanks to Variety’s Twitter account.
Dexter Fletcher was a little nervous about showing Rocketman to Elton John.
Whatever the case may be, it’s looking like Rocketman is starting out with some early praise from the extended CinemaCon footage.