Elton John Documentary ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ Lands At Disney In Mega Deal For Hybrid Release

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EXCLUSIVE: Disney Original Documentary and Disney+ have won the rights to a big feature documentary package, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Final Elton John Performances And the Years That Made His Legend.

No one would comment, but we hear the docu, from Academy Award-nominee R.J. Cutler as well as filmmaker (and longtime Elton John partner) David Furnish, sold for about $30 million.Designed to serve as the official feature on Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is comprised of unseen concert footage of him over the past 50 years, hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family.

The plan for the project is to get a festival run and limited theatrical release and be made available exclusively on Disney+.At the heart of the documentary is Elton John’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour” as the film will capture Elton John’s final months on the road, culminating in his November performance at Dodger Stadium in his final North American show.

We hear the package includes the rights to livestream that final concert, which is shaping up to be one of the greatest send-offs in rock-and-roll history.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road will also look back at the unprecedented first five years of John’s career when, between 1970 and 1975, he released 10 hit albums, seven of which went to No.