Elton John is a celebrity EGOT who has been the topic of a success Golden-Globe profitable 2019 biopic. His profession has been going sturdy for greater than 50 years, so it is a tall order to sum all of it up in simply over two minutes.
The brand new trailer for the upcoming Disney+ documentary Elton John: By no means Too Late makes an attempt to do exactly that, charting John’s course via numerous phases. Starting along with his childhood when “my life was all-consumed by music” it zips to the ’70s when he was “probably the most well-known pop star on the earth” and continues via his descent into habit, his struggles along with his sexuality and his present act as a husband and father of two.
In a voiceover, the 77-year-old Rock and Roll Corridor of Famer describes the worst of instances when habit practically swallowed him up complete. “There was an vacancy inside me,” John says. “My soul had gone darkish. I might gone darkish. I wasn’t a pleasure to be round. I could not have something other than my success and my medication.”
The trailer then alludes to a suicide try: “I took a bunch of tablets. I believed I used to be going to drown. I felt there have to be one thing extra to my life than this,” John says, earlier than the topic turns to his sexuality. “I used to be nonetheless very naïve,” he admits. “I did not know I used to be homosexual. If individuals had been homosexual, they had been within the closet.”
“I used to be undoubtedly wanting happiness,” he continues. “I used to be going utterly the fallacious method about it. It made me understand household was extra necessary than something.”
The household he created made Elton John: By no means Too Late doable. It was co-directed by his husband David Furnish, 61, with R.J. Cutler, and the 2 each additionally served as producers.
The documentary makes use of John’s remaining live performance at Dodger Stadium on Nov. 20, 2022 as its framing system. His life story unspools as he prepares for the ultimate American present of his Farewell Yellow Brick Street tour.
The documentary premiered on the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 6. John attended with Furnish, who talked to PEOPLE about John’s retirement.
“He’s by no means going again on the highway. He’s genuinely so joyful,” mentioned, Furnish, who shares two sons, Zachary, 13, and Elijah, 11, with John. “So for us to be at this second proper now, after a lot arduous work and a lot anticipation, there’s numerous heightened emotion.”
Elton John: By no means Too Late can have a restricted U.S. and U.Ok. theatrical run starting Nov. 15 earlier than debuting on Disney+ Dec. 13.