Netflix just released the official trailer for When They See Us, a limited series based on the true story of five teenagers wrongfully accused of raping a woman in Central Park. The riveting trailer dropped on the 30 year anniversary of the attack, with the four-part series set to premiere on May 31, 2019.
Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay (13th) created the series and co-wrote and directed all four parts. DuVernay also executive produced along with Oprah Winfrey, Jane Rosenthal, Berry Welsh, Jeff Skoll, Jonathan King, and Robert De Niro. DuVernay’s co-writers include Attica Locke, Robin Swicord, and Michael Starrbury.
The cast of When They See Us includes Emmy Award nominee Michael K. Williams, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga, Emmy Award winner John Leguizamo, Oscar nominee and Emmy Award winner Felicity Huffman, Emmy Award nominee Niecy Nash, Emmy Award winner Blair Underwood, Emmy Award and Grammy Award winner Christopher Jackson, and Joshua Jackson. The series also features Omar J. Dorsey, Adepero Oduye, Famke Janssen, Aurora Perrineau, William Sadler, Jharrel Jerome, Jovan Adepo, Aunjanue Ellis, Kylie Bunbury, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Storm Reid, Chris Chalk, Freddy Miyares, Justin Cunningham, Ethan Herisse, Caleel Harris, Marquis Rodriguez, and Asante Blackk.
Aunjanue Ellis and Ethan Herisse in ‘When They See Us’ (Photo by Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix)
The Plot, Courtesy of Netflix:
“Based on a true story that gripped the country, When They See Us will chronicle the notorious case of five teenagers of color, labeled the Central Park Five, who were convicted of a rape they did not commit. The four part limited series will focus on the five teenagers from Harlem – Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise. Beginning in the spring of 1989, when the teenagers were first questioned about the incident, the series will span 25 years, highlighting their exoneration in 2002 and the settlement reached with the city of New York in 2014.”
Fox’s Gotham comes to an end with season five episode 12 airing on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at 8pm ET/PT. The comic book-inspired series is wrapping up multiple storylines presented over season five, one of the series’ most engaging seasons and the season that marked the full evolution of Bruce Wayne into Batman.
The events transpiring in “The Beginning…” finale catapult the characters 10 years into the future, and the batch of photos released in support of episode 12 show most of the key characters as their older selves, with the exception of Bruce Wayne/Batman and Selina Kyle/Catwoman. The trailer teases Batman in action in his full Batsuit, and it also shows Catwoman attempting to steal a piece of jewelry. However, we don’t see Batman or Catwoman’s faces or frontal full body shots in the short teaser for the series’ finale.
The cast of the final season is led by Ben McKenzie as Detective James Gordon. Donal Logue is Detective Harvey Bullock, Sean Pertwee is Alfred Pennyworth, Robin Lord Taylor is Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin, and Erin Richards is Barbara Kean. David Mazouz plays Bruce Wayne/Batman, Camren Bicondova is Selina Kyle/Catwoman, Cory Michael Smith is Edward Nygma/The Riddler, and Chris Chalk plays Lucius Fox.
Cameron Monaghan returns as Jeremiah Valeska/The Joker for the finale.
The Beginning…” Plot: The series flash-forwards 10 years into the future, as Bruce is set to return to Gotham for the opening of the new Wayne Tower. A series of crimes leads Gordon to believe Penguin and The Riddler are up to their old tricks. However, when Bullock is framed for a murder, Gordon begins to piece together an even more sinister plot targeting the city, and a new figure emerges from the shadows to be the hero Gotham desperately needs.
The timely new limited series The Red Line will premiere on Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 8pm ET/PT. The series is set in Chicago and follows three families dealing with tragedies that affect their lives. The eight-episode drama will air in two-hour installments over four consecutive Sundays.
Noah Wyle (Falling Skies, ER) Emayatzy Corinealdi (Ballers, Hand of God), and Noel Fisher (Shameless, Castle Rock) lead the cast of The Red Line, with Greg Berlanti, Ava DuVernay, Sarah Schechter, Caitlin Parrish, Sunil Nayar, and Kevin Hooks serving as executive producers.
The cast also includes Aliyah Royale as Jira Calder-Brennan, Howard Charles as Ethan Young, Elizabeth Laidlaw as Victoria “Vic” Renna, Vinny Chhibber as Liam Bhatt, and Michael Patrick Thornton as Jim Evans.
The first episode, “We Must All Care,” was directed by Victoria Mahoney from a script by Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss. Episode two, titled “We Are Each Other’s Harvest” and airing immediately after episode one on April 28th, was directed by Kevin Hooks and written by Shernold Edwards.
The Plot, Courtesy of CBS:
The Red Line is an eight-episode original limited series that follows three very different Chicago families as they journey toward hope and healing after a tragedy causes them all to consider how race and racial biases affect their lives. On the north side of Chicago, Daniel Calder (Wyle) is a high school history teacher mourning the death of his husband, an African American doctor who was shot, while unarmed, by a white cop. As Daniel tries to comfort their grieving daughter, Jira Calder-Brennan, the two butt heads when she decides she needs more support than her father can provide. She seeks the understanding of someone who knows what it’s like to grow up as a young black woman, and searches for her birth mother to learn more about her personal history, culture and community. Daniel seeks comfort in his colleague – and Jira’s teacher – Liam Bhatt.
On the south side, Tia Young (Corinealdi) scours news of the shooting, torn between her political ambition of running for Alderman and risking it all to comfort the daughter she gave up for adoption as a teen. Tia’s husband, Ethan Young, a red line train operator and devoted father to their 6-year-old son, champions her running for office, but cautions her about connecting with Jira.
On the west side, police officer Paul Evans (Fisher) must face the reality of his actions and intentions in the fatal shooting of an innocent man and worries about his fate amidst the public and legal fallout. His police partner, Victoria “Vic” Renna, and his brother, Jim Evans, a volatile former cop confined to a wheelchair after being shot in the line of duty, cause more harm than good in their attempts to help him.
As the stories of the Calder, Young and Evans families converge, they each discover that it’s impossible to ignore issues of race; it’s important for each of us to explore how our backgrounds and internal biases affect how we act, and that we must open our eyes and see that we’re all human and all deserving of the same dignity.
Amazon Prime Video’s much-anticipated series Good Omens, based on the bestselling novel Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, is set to launch to Amazon Prime subscribers on May 31, 2019. Good Omens follows the story of the angel Aziraphale and a demon named Crowley who unite to stop the impending Armageddon. Michael Sheen (Masters of Sex, The Good Fight) channels his angelic side as Aziraphale while David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) sinks his teeth into Crowley.
Sheen and Tennant were teamed up for roundtable interviews at the New York Comic Con to promote the supernatural fantasy series. The interview turned out to be an entertaining lovefest, with Sheen and Tennant sharing their admiration for each other’s work. The talkative duo also expressed their pleasure at being a part of a series based on Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s book.
How long have you known each other?
David Tennant: “I feel like we knew each other even before Bright Young Things. I seem to remember we got to know each other reasonably well.”
Michael Sheen: “Yeah. We were both in a film together called Bright Young Things that Stephen Fry directed. So, 2003?”
David Tennant: “Yeah, let’s say that.”
Michael Sheen: “But we weren’t in scenes together, so we were just sort of in the same film. And then we’ve just sort of known each other since then, but this is the first time we’ve actually got to work together. And this is, like, into the deep end.”
David Tennant: (Laughing) “Certainly is!”
Michael Sheen: “It’s just the two of us all the time.”
So, was working together everything you expected it to be after all that time?
Michael Sheen: “I’ve been saying that – and it’s true – I came into it as a fan of David’s work.”
David Tennant: “And likewise.”
Michael Sheen: “And so you don’t know how that’s going to go. We’re not massively dissimilar. As actors we could be up for the same sort of parts, and that’s part of why this works quite well because they both started off as angels. It’s good that there’s a sort of connection, but that could go one of two ways. So, when we first started doing the table read, the first time we ever did the lines out loud, there was a sense of, ‘Oh, right, you’re going to be in that area, so I’ll be in this.’ And then it is like a dance. You just sort of get into a rhythm and it just seemed to fit. It just seemed to fit really well, didn’t it?”
David Tennant: “I think in the end it was exactly like I thought it was going to be because I imagined Michael would be a certain way because I thought, ‘Oh, he’s that kind of actor and he’s creative and he does that. He’s sort of clever and quick.’ But then, you never really know until you’re there because sometimes you think, ‘Oh, working with that person will be like this,’ because you make certain assumptions about how they work and who they are from what you’ve seen.”
Michael Sheen: “Right. But you have no idea about someone’s process, and someone could be an absolute pain in the ass that’s nice to work with aside from what the work is like itself.”
David Tennant: “Yeah. And even when you do know someone personally and socially, that doesn’t necessarily translate to how they will be professionally. But I think it probably did in this case. It was as easy and it was as creative and it was as fun.”
Michael Sheen: “I’ve been asked this before and at the risk of embarrassing David, someone said, ‘What is the biggest challenge about playing the part?’ And genuinely the biggest challenge was being in scenes with David and just enjoying watching what he was doing so much that it would be in danger of me just stopping acting. ‘That’s very good, what you’re doing! I really like that.’ And what was lovely is then it really felt like… There’s all the clichés about playing tennis and knocking the ball back and forth but it really did feel like that.”
David Tennant: “And upping your game.”
Michael Sheen: “And really playing together.”
David Tennant: “Yeah, it did feel like genuine playing. Yeah. It felt like we were out to make the scene better. There was no sort of one-upmanship.”
Michael Sheen: “Exactly. And the characters themselves lend themselves to it, I think.”
David Tennant: “They really do.”
Michael Sheen: “They compliment each other so well, the characters. The better you are at trying to be your character, actually what it does is it makes the relationship better. That’s the engine of the story and the engine of that relationship.
It was easier for me because I decided that early on that Aziraphale just loves Crowley. And that’s difficult for him because they’re on opposite sides and he doesn’t agree with him on stuff. But it does really help as an actor to go, ‘My objective in this scene is to not show you how much I love you. And just gaze longingly at you all the time.’ That really does happen.”
David Tennant: “But then Crowley absolutely loves Aziraphale. He hates that he loves him. It’s really annoying for him. So, they’re both going through that.”
Michael Sheen: “There is a sort of wonderful love story in this. I think a lot of the fans of the book kind of like that when they think about the characters, there’s an interesting love story going on. It’s never explicit in this, but it’s there. It is there.”
David Tennant: “There’s something about that kind of co-dependency and that kind of eternal relationship that has a kind of mythical quality to it and yet is very human and mundane.”
Michael Sheen: “And they’ve just got each other. There is no one else. That’s what I love about The Beatles story; they went through it together and no one else can understand what it was like to be a Beatle. No one else could understand what it was like be an angel or a demon on earth for all these centuries.”
David Tennant: “Especially after all these centuries they’ve cut themselves off. For self-preservation purposes they’ve cut themselves off from their respective head offices so that they can preserve that life. They’ve become rather proprietorial and greedy about that life on earth because they enjoy the trappings of humanity that they’re not supposed to be indulging in.”
Michael Sheen: “The more I think about it, the more I come back to just the brilliance of Neil and Terry’s original idea. The idea of an angel and a demon, we’re on earth supposedly enemies fighting against each other and they fall in love with the earth and humanity and what it’s like to be a human so much that they end up going against their own head offices to stop it from ending. That’s just a brilliant premise.”
David Tennant and Michael Sheen star in ‘Good Omens’ (Photo by Sophie Mutevelian / Amazon Prime Video)
Are there any characters you’ve played in the past that share similarities with your Good Omens characters or is this something totally new?
David Tennant: “Oh, I don’t know. That’s a good question. I feel like I needed three days notice to give you a decent answer.”
Michael Sheen: “I played a character in a very little film – a small independent film when I was just starting to do films – called Heartlands and that character was a real innocent. And it’s a sort of road movie and it’s about a young guy who’s never left his village. He goes off on a little moped across Britain to try and get his wife back. He’s a real innocent, that character.”
David Tennant: “You were great in that film. I remember that!”
Michael Sheen: “Thank you. But the innocence of that is sort of the closest to Aziraphale. But then Aziraphale isn’t just innocent so there’s that in there, and he’s very vulnerable and everything is very on the surface with him. But no, I’ve not really played a character like Aziraphale before.”
David Tennant: “The only character I think of a bit is Peter Vincent from the movie Fright Night who’s a bit… I mean, they dress quite similarly. He’s a bit rock ‘n’ roll; he thinks he’s really cool and he’s actually not cool at all and he’s rather soft and rather sweet underneath a very swaggery exterior. So, there’s elements of that to Crowley.”
Michael Sheen: “Well, there’s a little bit of Aziraphale I suppose in the character I played in Bright Young Things. A tiny little bit in there maybe.”
David Tennant: “Yeah. But I think again they’re characters that feel eternal. They feel like archetypes and again that comes back to what Neil and Terry created because they feel like they’ve been around forever.”
Michael Sheen: “And I do find it difficult to describe Aziraphale without describing the relationship. There sort of is no Aziraphale without Crowley. I do feel like that.”
Pixar’s fourth film of the Toy Story franchise brings Bo Peep back into the fold and makes the character key to the plot. A new 30 second Toy Story 4 video features Woody reuniting with his long-lost friend and heading off to a carnival where he’s mistaken for a prize. In another clip, a cat walks through the video and leaves a destroyed stuffed animal behind, causing panic among other toys who are seeing what their insides look like for the very first time.
Tom Hanks leads the voice cast which includes Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Maddie McGraw, Christina Hendricks, Jordan Peele, Keanu Reeves, Ally Maki, Jay Hernandez, Lori Alan, Joan Cusack, and Bonnie Hunt. Kristen Schaal, Emily Davis, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Blake Clark, June Squibb, Carl Weathers, Lila Sage, Don Rickles, Jeff Garlin, Maliah Bargas-Good, Jack McGraw, Juliana Hansen, and Estelle Harris also lend their voices to the fourth film of the blockbuster franchise.
Josh Cooley (Riley’s First Date?) directed and Jonas Rivera (Inside Out, Up) and Mark Nielsen (associate producer Inside Out) produced.
Toy Story 4 is set to open in theaters on June 21, 2019.
The Plot:
Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. So when Bonnie’s beloved new craft-project-turned-toy, Forky (voice of Tony Hale), declares himself as “trash” and not a toy, Woody takes it upon himself to show Forky why he should embrace being a toy. But when Bonnie takes the whole gang on her family’s road trip excursion, Woody ends up on an unexpected detour that includes a reunion with his long-lost friend Bo Peep (voice of Annie Potts).
After years of being on her own, Bo’s adventurous spirit and life on the road belie her delicate porcelain exterior. As Woody and Bo realize they’re worlds apart when it comes to life as a toy, they soon come to find that’s the least of their worries.
Syfy’s released the first full trailer for season two of the comic book-inspired series, Krypton, along with the new season’s premiere date and poster. Krypton will return to the network’s primetime lineup on June 12, 2019 at 10pm ET/PT.
The trailer and premiere date announcement was timed to celebrate the first appearance of Superman in a comic book. The character debuted in Action Comics #1 on April 18, 1938.
The series’ cast is led by Cameron Cuffe (The Halcyon) as Seg-El. Georgina Campbell (Broadchurch) is Lyta-Zod, Shaun Sipos (The Vampire Diaries) is Adam Strange, Colin Salmon (Arrow) is General Dru-Zod, Ann Ogbomo (World War Z) is Jayna-Zod, and Aaron Pierre (Britannia) is Dev-Em. The cast also includes Rasmus Hardiker (Your Highness) as Kem, Wallis Day (Will) as Nyssa-Vex, Blake Ritson (Da Vinci’s Demons) as Brainiac, and Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones) as Val-El.
Krypton is based on the DC characters created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Cameron Welsh (Constantine, The Last Ship) is the showrunner and executive produces with David S. Goyer (Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Dark Knight Trilogy).
The Plot, Courtesy of Syfy:
“What if Superman never existed? Set two generations before the destruction of Superman’s home planet, Krypton follows Seg-El (Cuffe), the legendary Man of Steel’s grandfather, as a young man who fights to save his home planet from destruction. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe.
Faced with a bleak outlook, our hero, Seg-El, attempts to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope to their beloved planet. Their chance at redemption is threatened however, by their opposing tactics, shifting alliances and conflicting moral boundaries – forcing each of them to individually determine how far they’re willing to go in pursuit of a better tomorrow.
The full trailer for Child’s Play, the 2019 edition, reveals the Buddi dolls are programmed to control electronics within their owner’s home (think Alexa but with a creepy doll body). So not only can the homicidal doll kill its owner with actual weapons, Chucky’s going to be able to turn electronics against his targets. As if Chucky wasn’t creepy enough in the original films…
The cast of the 2019 Child’s Play includes Aubrey Plaza (Legion, Parks and Recreation), Gabriel Bateman (The Dangerous Book for Boys, Lights Out), and Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows). Mark Hamill (the Star Wars films) will be providing the voice of Chucky. Brad Dourif voiced the killer doll in the film franchise’s previous installments. Lars Klevberg (Polaroid) directed from a script by Tyler Burton Smith, based on characters created by Don Mancini.
Seth Graham-Smith and David Katzenberg of KatzSmith Productions (It, It: Chapter Two) produced the new Child’s Play. The behind the scenes team includes cinematographer Brendan Uegama, editor Tom Elkins, production designer Dan Hermansen, costume designer Jori Woodman, and set decorator Rachel Robinson.
The Plot:
“A contemporary re-imagining of the 1988 horror classic, Child’s Play follows Karen (Aubrey Plaza), a single mother who gifts her son Andy (Gabriel Bateman) a Buddi doll, unaware of its more sinister nature.”
CBS All Access’ original drama Strange Angel will return for its second season on Thursday, June 13, 2019. New episodes will be unveiled each Thursday to CBS All Access subscribers.
The subscription service’s premiere date announcement was accompanied by the release of the first teaser trailer for the upcoming second season.
The cast of Strange Angel includes Jack Reynor as Jack Parsons, Rupert Friend as Ernest Donovan, Bella Heathcote as Susan Parsons, and Peter Mark Kendall as Richard Onsted. Angus Macfadyen joined the season two cast playing Aleister Crowley.
The series is based on George Pendle’s book. Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Skeleton Twins) created the series and executive produces with David DiGilio, Ridley Scott, and David W. Zucker. Clayton Krueger is a co-executive producer.
The Plot:
“The period drama explores the bizarre true story of Jack Parsons, a man who straddled the worlds of science and the occult, pioneering America’s rocketry program while simultaneously practicing sex magick rituals as a devotee to Aleister Crowley’s religion, Thelema.
At the conclusion of Strange Angel’s first season, Jack and his team from Caltech made a scientific breakthrough that secured the military’s interest as the country neared the brink of war. In season two, the U.S. is fully engaged in World War II, transforming Jack’s rocketry work into a lucrative business and further entrenching him in the military-industrial complex. While Jack’s career takes off, he and his wife Susan’s devotion to their new occult religion grows, leading them to invite the sex cult into their Pasadena mansion and Jack to forge a personal relationship with the group’s notorious founder, Aleister Crowley himself.”
Terry Gilliam’s commitment to making a Don Quixote movie spans nearly 30 years, encompasses multiple disasters on set, and dozens of casting changes. Financing came and went, and still Gilliam persisted. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is the result of three decades of dedication to a basic idea, although the story itself changed and evolved over the years.
Adam Driver stars as Toby, an advertising director who takes a trip down a rabbit hole into the world of Javier the cobbler (an outstanding Jonathan Pryce) who’s under the impression he’s the actual Don Quixote. Javier had been cast to play the role in a student film 10 years prior and has transformed into a living and breathing Don Quixote, complete with tilting at windmills, ever since.
The slippery slope from reality to this particular delusion was made possible by Toby. 10 years ago he shot a student film and convinced Javier to play the part. Toby has since moved on, but Javier’s stuck in this twisted alternate reality in which he’s become the character. When Toby returns to the town to shoot a commercial featuring a different Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, he takes inspiration in his old student film to get over difficulties in the shoot.
Toby reconnects with Javier, still in character, and Javier mistakenly believes Toby is his friend, Sancho. Together, this unlikely duo faces new adventures as Miguel de Cervantes’ characters spring to life in the modern day.
Adam Driver and Jonathan Pryce in ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.’
If you were able to completely understand every little nuance in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, then it wouldn’t be a Terry Gilliam film. Gilliam’s films can confound and frustrate, but they’re rarely boring or ordinary. His Don Quixote project is definitely not the latter. It’s weird, wild, and ultimately entertaining.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote could have used another round of editing to chip away some filler material, but the story is mesmerizing and driven by an outstanding performance by Adam Driver. Driver’s such a refreshing surprise among the current batch of actors in his age group. He’s proven himself fully capable of tackling a wide range of genres, and his deadpan delivery in Gilliam’s take on Don Quixote is pitch perfect. If there was ever a role that challenged Driver to just let loose and embrace the crazy, this is it. Driver nails Gilliam’s material, biting off the dialogue and dissolving into the lunacy with a perceptible glee.
Terry Gilliam’s resume as a director is a mix of brilliance (Brazil, Time Bandits, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) and creative misfires (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Tideland, The Brothers Grimm). The Man Who Killed Don Quixote lies somewhere in the middle. Given the fact a Terry Gilliam Don Quixote project has been talked about for three decades, the end result is a bit of a letdown. But I do wonder if I didn’t know the backstory, if I wasn’t aware of all the fits and starts and had no inkling of Gilliam steadfastly clinging to a Don Quixote project for all these years, would I have viewed the finished film through different eyes? Maybe I expected too much given the number of years Gilliam had to prepare and sharpen the script.
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is clever, confusing, and sure to delight Terry Gilliam fans. Adam Driver fans will also be entertained by the actor’s commitment to bringing this bizarre tale to life. There’s a specific audience out there ready to accept and appreciate The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, but I think it’s also such a weird little film that it might just win over a new generation of Terry Gilliam admirers seeking relief from the ordinary.
GRADE: B-
Running Time: 132 minutes
Release Date: April 10, 2019 followed by an expanded release the week of April 15th
Directed By: Terry Gilliam
Written By: Terry Gilliam and Tony Grisoni
Presented By: Fathom Events and Screen Media Films
In the new promotional video for Rocketman, director Dexter Fletcher describes the project as “Elton John’s magical retelling of his own life.” Fletcher acknowledges that because of the nature of Sir Elton John, the “storytelling allowed us to totally indulge in fantasy and imagination.”
The minute and a half video focuses on Sir Elton John and his journey from a young musical prodigy to a singer/songwriter loved by billions across the globe. Rocketman star Taron Egerton notes that it’s amazing Elton John, a working class kid, became one of the biggest icons in the world. Jamie Bell, who plays John’s collaborator Bernie Taupin, says the film’s more than a biopic. “It’s exactly how an Elton John story should be told.”
“It had to be as honest as possible,” says the Rocketman himself, Elton John. “The lows were very low, but the highs were very high. And that’s how I wanted the film to be.”
The cast is led by Taron Egerton (the Kingsman films) as Elton John. Jamie Bell is Elton’s longtime lyricist and writing partner Bernie Taupin; Richard Madden plays Elton’s first manager, John Reid; and Bryce Dallas Howard is Elton’s mother, Sheila Farebrother. Matthew Vaughn, David Furnish, Adam Bohling, and David Reid served as producers, and Sir Elton John, Steve Hamilton Shaw, Michael Gracey, Claudia Schiffer, and Brian Oliver executive produced.
Paramount Pictures will release Rocketman in theaters on May 31, 2019.
The Plot:
Rocketman is an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years. The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation from shy piano prodigy Reginald Dwight into international superstar Elton John. This inspirational story – set to Elton John’s most beloved songs and performed by star Taron Egerton – tells the universally relatable story of how a small-town boy became one of the most iconic figures in pop culture.
