‘My Soul Had Gone Darkish’

Elton John is a famous person EGOT who has been the topic of successful 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 by varied phases. Starting along with his childhood when “my life was all-consumed by music” it zips to the ’70s when he was “essentially the most well-known pop star on the earth” and continues by his descent into dependancy, 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 dependancy almost swallowed him up entire. “There was an vacancy inside me,” John says. “My soul had gone darkish. I would 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 assumed I used to be going to drown. I felt there should 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 folks have been homosexual, they have been within the closet.”

“I used to be undoubtedly wanting happiness,” he continues. “I used to be going fully the flawed manner about it. It made me understand household was extra essential than something.”

The household he created made Elton John: By no means Too Late attainable. 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 closing 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 Highway tour.

The documentary premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant on Sept. 6. John attended with Furnish, who talked to PEOPLE about John’s retirement.

“He’s by no means going again on the street. He’s genuinely so completely happy,” stated, 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 onerous work and a lot anticipation, there’s a number of heightened emotion.”

Elton John: By no means Too Late could have a restricted U.S. and U.Ok. theatrical run starting Nov. 15 earlier than debuting on Disney+ Dec. 13.