The massive success of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” even with its myriad behind-the-scenes issues, is still one of 2018’s biggest surprises.Even before the Queen biopic racked up a handful of Oscar nominations, its box-office take presented a big problem for the creative team behind the Elton John movie “Rocketman.” While “Bohemian Rhapsody” doubled down on being sanitized and crowd-friendly, a recent Vulture article outlines how “Rocketman” struggled with convincing people at various stages in the process that it was worth including the less glossy chapters from John’s life.With “Bohemian Rhapsody” outperforming expectations as a 20th Century Fox release, Paramount Motion Picture Group Wyck Godfrey said that after greenlighting an R-rated version of the story, there were occasional pressures to go along with the established, proven formula that would get the film a PG-13.
Eventually, the studio relented.“Pretty quickly, we came back around to the fact that we committed
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