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Elton and Tom Hardy at AFM to promote "Rocketman"
Wednesday, November 6 2013 |
Who cares about jet lag when you can have breakfast with Elton John and Tom Hardy?
The pop icon and star turned up at a November 5, 2013 breakfast in Santa Monica to personally tout "Rocketman," the Elton John biopic that will star Hardy. Leading foreign sales outfit Good Universe hosted the event on the eve of the American Film Market (AFM), where it will shop the project to international distributors. About 100 foreign buyers attended the bash, held at the swank Bel-Air Bay Club.
Elton and Hardy, flanked by director Michael Gracey, talked about their hopes for the movie-musical, which Elton is executive producing. Elton also will re-record many of his hits to parallel the emotional beats of the movie.
Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish of Rocket Pictures are producing the biopic alongside Lawrence Bender for AI Films. Other executive producers include Len Blavatnik, Aviv Giladi and Focus Features CEO Peter Schlessel. Focus will release the film in the U.S. (Schlessel brought the project with him from FilmDistrict).
Tom Hardy to play Elton in "Rocketman" biopic Thursday, October 24 2013 at 05:27:40 Tom Hardy pursued for the role of Elton John Thursday, May 30 2013 at 10:11:41
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