MUMBAI: The new CEO of Focus Features, Peter Schlessel, he has decided to make it a priority to speed up Elton John’s biopic Rocketman. Tom Hardy stars as the legendary singer in the movie. Schlessel has also co-founded FilmDistrict, a distribution entity that has bagged the rights to Rocketman which Elton John is executive producing.

Michael Gracey will be shooting the movie in fall 2014 with an original screenplay by Lee Hall. John will be re-recording many of his iconic hit songs to match the movie’s pace. Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing the movie from Rocket Pictures while Lawrence Bender on behalf of financier at AI Film.

Len Blavatnik is also executive producing along with AI Film CEO Aviv Giladi and Schlessel. International sales are being handled by Good Universe.