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"Sir Elton John has revealed that he would like Justin Timberlake to play him in an upcoming biopic. The singer explained that his Rocket Man project is &amp;quot;very much in the works&amp;quot;, and that an official announcement will be made soon. John was previously announced as the film&amp;#039;s executive producer, along with his partner David Furnish, but has not revealed many details himself. Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall will provide the screenplay.   &amp;quot;We have a director on board, and then it&amp;#039;s just going to be a matter of getting the script exactly the way we want it,&amp;quot; he told the Los Angeles Times. &amp;quot;Lee Hall has written a script - he wrote Billy Elliot - and then we&amp;#039;ll start trying to cast and plan.&amp;quot; On whom he would like to play him, he said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve got a wish list of people. Number one on my wishlist is Justin Timberlake, because he played me before in a David LaChapelle video of &amp;#039;Rocket Man&amp;#039; and he was superb.&amp;quot; John described the film as a &amp;quot;jukebox musical&amp;quot; and that it will chart his career using many of his biggest hits. He said: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s going to be a surreal look at my life, and not just a factual look at my life, more in the manner of a Moulin Rouge. I just don&amp;#039;t want it to be a normal biopic because my life hasn&amp;#039;t been like that.&amp;quot; The &amp;#039;Your Song&amp;#039; singer added that he is currently working on a new album, but doesn&amp;#039;t expect to get heavy airplay. He said: &amp;quot;As Elton John, my days on pop radio are over, and I know that and I accept it and I&amp;#039;m not unhappy about it. It&amp;#039;s a different time of my life now, and it gives me the freedom to do whatever kind of music I want to do. &amp;quot;When I say I don&amp;#039;t have to write pop songs anymore, there&amp;#039;s no way I&amp;#039;m going to get on the radio at 60 years of age unless I&amp;#039;m doing a duet with Lady GaGa or I was on &amp;#039;All of the Lights&amp;#039;, which was a Kanye West record that managed to get on the radio.&amp;quot; John revealed last year that he would like to collaborate with Muse for the London Olympics in the summer. Watch the video for Elton John&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;This Train Don&amp;#039;t Stop Here Anymore&amp;#039; featuring Justin Timberlake below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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