Elton John Documentary 'Never Too Late' To Premiere This Week

The new Elton John documentary, Never Too Late, will finally make its way to streaming this week.

Set to air on Disney+ this Friday, 13 December, the documentary film follows John as he prepares for his final North American concert at Dodger Stadium. As he prepares for that show, the singer and musician takes viewers back in time through his life and the early days of his 50-year career. TV Tonight notes that the film will feature a new original song by Elton John.

Never Too Late was directed by R.J. Cutler and John’s husband and filmmaker, David Furnish. According to a press release, the film tracks the “extraordinary highs and heartbreaking lows of his early years” and “how he overcame adversity, abuse, and addiction to become the icon he is today.”

The documentary was produced by Rocket Entertainment and This Machine Filmworks (a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Television). Directors Cutler and Furnish also served as producers alongside Trevor Smith, while Elise Pearlstein, Mark Blatty, Luke Lloyd Davies, Rachael Paley, Jane Cha Cutler, and John Battsek, who were on board as executive producers.

You can watch the trailer for the documentary and John performing the song Never Too Late with Brandi Carlile below.

Elton John’s final North American show at Dodger Stadium took place in November 2022 – the Tiny Dancer musician played for three nights at the venue.

“I’ve had the most wonderful career… beyond belief,” John said at his final show in Stockholm last year, per NME. “Fifty years of pure joy playing music… how lucky am I? I wouldn’t be sitting here… if it wasn’t for you.

“You bought the singles, the CDs, the albums, the cassettes… [and] more importantly, you bought the tickets to the shows. You know how much I love to play live. It’s been my lifeblood to play for you guys. You’ve been absolutely magnificent.”

In a review of Elton John’s Farewell Yellow Brick Road concert at Sydney’s Allianz Stadium last January – which was pushed back due to COVID-19 – The Music’s Mick Radojkovic declared: “Elton is renowned for staying on stage for his whole performance and to pull out a two and half hour show at the age of 75 is impressive, to say the least.”

Radojkovic added, “There will never be another Elton John. His legacy will long outlast him, and the pleasure was all ours as Sydney glistened into the summer night and we headed back to our plough.”