Bryce Dallas Howard to Play Elton John's Mother in ROCKETMAN Biopic

According to Variety, Bryce Dallas Howard is set to play Elton John's mother in Paramount's biopic "Rocketman."

Taron Egerton is portraying John, while Jamie Bell is on board as Bernie Taupin, and Richard Madden is playing music manager John Reid. Dexter Fletcher is attached to helm the project. Lee Hall penned the script. Paramount Pictures will finance and distribute the pic.

The film will include John's emergence as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music to becoming a music superstar and his partnership with songwriting collaborator Taupin. John broke out in 1972 with the album "Honky Chateau" and scored a blockbuster with the 1973 album "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road," which topped the charts for two months in the U.S. and U.K.

Matthew Vaughn and his Marv Films will produce, along with John and his Rocket Pictures partner David Furnish.

Howard was cast in what would be her breakout film, the psychological thriller The Village in 2004. She then starred in Shyamalan's fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006). Her performance in Kenneth Branagh's 2006 film adaptation of As You Like It earned her a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2006, she co-wrote and directed the short film Orchids. Howard also appeared as Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi's superhero film Spider-Man 3 (2007).

Howard became more recognizable to audiences as the vampire Victoria in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse(2010). This project, as well as the action film Terminator SALVATION (2009), were financially successful, but garnered mixed reviews from critics. In 2011, she had supporting roles in the films 50/50 and The Help. She gained further international recognition for playing Claire Dearing in the Science fiction adventure films Jurassic World (2015) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), the fourth and fifth installments in the Jurassic Park series, and her most financially successful films to date.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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