{"id":15565,"date":"2018-07-20T12:11:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=15565"},"modified":"2018-07-20T12:11:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T12:11:42","slug":"richard-madden-in-talks-to-join-elton-john-biopic-rocketman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=15565","title":{"rendered":"Richard Madden in talks to join Elton John biopic &#8216;Rocketman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Los Angeles, Jul 20 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; star Richard Madden is in negotiations to join the cast of Elton John biopic Rocketman.<\/p>\n<p>To be directed by Dexter Fletcher from a script by Lee Hall, the film will feature Taron Egerton as the legendary singer.<\/p>\n<p>If finalised, Madden, 32, will portray John&#8217;s former manager, John Reid, who oversaw the career of the &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221; singer for over three decades starting in the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Madden, who became a household name after playing Robb Stark on &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;, will be joined by Jamie Bell as Bernie Taupin in the project.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Vaughn and his Marv Films will produce, along with John and his Rocket Pictures partner David Furnish.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher, who previously worked with Egerton on &#8220;Kingsman&#8221; films and &#8220;Eddie the Eagle&#8221;, is currently awaiting the release of &#8220;Bohemian Rhapsody&#8221;, the biopic on legendary legendary Queen singer Freddie Mercury.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, Jul 20 (DIN NEWS) &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; star Richard Madden is in negotiations to join the cast of Elton John biopic Rocketman. To be directed by Dexter Fletcher from a script by Lee Hall, the film will feature Taron Egerton as the legendary singer. If finalised, Madden, 32, will portray John&#8217;s former manager, John Reid, who oversaw the career of the &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221; singer for over three decades starting in the 1970s. Madden, who became a household name after playing Robb Stark on &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221;, will be&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15567,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15565\/revisions\/15567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}