Elton John has already had a biopic that made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival and won him an Oscar, “Rocketman,” so it was perhaps inevitable that he’d add a bio-doc to the slate of Elton movies. That documentary, R.J. Cutler and David Furnish’s “Elton John: Never Too Late,” premiered on Friday night at the huge Roy Thomson Hall as part of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.
The film adopts an interesting take on a career that has lasted more than 50 years: It focuses on the first few years of Elton’s career and on the last few years, with scant attention paid to the 35-or-so years and 20-plus albums in between.