Elton John documentary to premiere at Toronto Movie Competition
A documentary on Elton John is about to premiere on the upcoming Toronto Movie Competition 2024.
Elton John: By no means Too Late will present John’s journey by way of the Farewell Yellow Brick Street Tour, which started in 2018 and wrapped up in Stockholm final July. It was the first-ever live performance tour to earn over $900million (£708million) in gross ticket gross sales, making it the best grossing live performance tour of all time.
In accordance with Music News, the documentary may also “pull the again the curtain” on the famous person’s life, that includes “never-before-seen live performance footage of him over the previous 50 years, in addition to hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his household”.
A number of the footage taken from the farewell tour was filmed at his last US efficiency on the Dodger Stadium in November 2022. The live performance was livestreamed by Disney+ and subsequently issued on the streaming platform as Elton John Stay: Farewell from Dodger Stadium.
Elton John: By no means Too Late is collectively directed by R.J. Cutler and David Furnish, John’s husband. The movie will display on the competition someday in September, with a Disney+ launch scheduled for a later date.
At John’s last date in Stockholm, he instructed the group: “Fifty years of pure pleasure enjoying music… how fortunate am I? I wouldn’t be sitting right here… it wasn’t for you. You got the singles, the CDs, the albums, the cassettes… [and] extra importantly, you got the tickets to the reveals. You understand how a lot I like to play stay. It’s been my lifeblood to play for you guys. You’ve been completely magnificent.”
In the meantime, John shouldn’t be executed releasing new music simply but. In Might, his buddy and co-writer Bernie Taupin revealed that John’s thirty second studio album is “all executed and recorded”.
“I feel it’s fairly sensible and fairly modern and it’ll actually shock lots of people and excite lots of people and hopefully achieve success,” Taupin teases.
A guide overlaying his farewell tour, authored by John himself, can be attributable to publish in September.