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"Elton John will executive produce a musical biopic based on his life. Rocketman is being produced by the legendary musician and his partner David Furnish&amp;#039;s Rocket Pictures. The pair are teaming with Billy Elliot writer and playwright Lee Hall on the film, which has been described as a musical fantasy that combines musical numbers with the real events of John&amp;#039;s life, reports Deadline. The film will go as far back as John&amp;#039;s childhood, in which, at the age of 11, the piano playing prodigy won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. &amp;quot;Rocketman will be a radically different kind of biopic,&amp;quot; said Rocket Pictures&amp;#039; Steve Hamilton Shaw, who is producing the movie alongside Furnish. &amp;quot;It will be as unique as Elton&amp;#039;s life, told in a non-linear and hyper-visual manner that will transport people through the many intense experiences, some wonderful, some not, that helped define Elton as an artist, musician and man.&amp;quot; John and Hall previously collaborated on the Tony Award-winning stage adaptation of Billy Elliot. There is currently no director attached to Rocketman. &amp;gt; Sir Elton John&amp;#039;s Aids Fountain sues banker over unpaid \u00C2\u00A3700,000 charity bid Watch Elton John perform &amp;#039;Rocket Man&amp;#039; on his 60th Birthday at New York&amp;#039;s Madison Square Garden below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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