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In December 2017, Dexter Fletcher was immersed in planning Rocketman, a musical about Elton John, when Rami Malek called him from the set of Bohemian Rhapsody, where director Bryan Singer had gone AWOL. "Rami was like, 'We fucking need you, man. We need somebody,' " Fletcher says. " 'If you come to set and shit on the floor, you'll still do a better job than this guy.' "

Fletcher, 53, had been attached to direct Bohemian Rhapsody up until the first week of preproduction, when it was set up at Sony, before the studio changed its mind about his R-rated treatment of Queen's story. Now, with the movie at Fox and its $52 million production falling behind schedule and running out of money, Rocketman producer Matthew Vaughn suggested to Fox executive Emma Watts that Fletcher return to finish the film.

For Fletcher, it was a bit like being called by an ex who had broken his heart and suddenly needed a last-minute date for prom. Emotionally, he had moved on to Rocketman, a movie that seemed to be the culmination of his creative ambitions, and he was committed to a spring 2018 start date with Taron Egerton in the role of the singer-songwriter. But he also saw an opportunity in Fox's dilemma. "I want to be a guy where the folks go, 'Well, he's fucking reliable. That's good.' Because I've got drive. I want to be somewhere. I want them to be like, 'OK, we need to put together a movie. Who can we trust with that money? Well, he fucking got us there and delivered.' "

By 8 a.m. the next Monday, Fletcher was on Bohemian Rhapsody's London set, directing the last three weeks of principal photography, as well as additional pickup shots. It was a decision that would plunge him into the middle of the bizarre Singer saga — he took over the movie a year before an Atlantic article detailed sexual misconduct allegations against the filmmaker — and align him with an Oscar-winning, $900 million box office triumph. He did not shit on the floor.

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Fletcher did get hired again, in 2017, for Bohemian Rhapsody, but his pitch for the Queen biopic — with a script by The Road scribe Joe Penhall — had been darker than the one Fox ultimately greenlighted. "I was like, 'It's got to be R. It's got to have fucking angst and be about an immigrant, a gay man, all the outsider values,' " Fletcher says. When Fox decided instead to make a PG-13 film that focused on the band's rise, "It felt like a real boot in the teeth," Fletcher says. "It was like, 'The money's not there. We're not doing it.' But look, just because you put all your heart into something doesn't mean to say it's right. They [Fox] were right, $900 million right."

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So when Singer's set absences grew increasingly problematic for Fox, Watts called Vaughn and, as he tells it, said, "There's been a bit of a ding-dong with Bohemian and could I come in and help?" The producer was inclined to oblige and watched existing footage. "Singer did a very good job," Vaughn says. "He just hadn't finished it. I said, 'I'm not the man to finish it, but I know who is.' " Vaughn saw three weeks of mop-up duty on Rhapsody as the perfect gig for Fletcher. "I told Dexter, 'This is going to be '70s pop icon boot camp for you,' " Vaughn says. "It'd give him even more confidence when he went in to do Rocketman." The job would involve shooting 30 percent of the movie, including scenes when Freddie Mercury celebrates his birthday at his parents' dinner table and when the band writes "Another One Bites the Dust." It would require a lack of ego, as Fox wasn't looking for a director to put his own stamp on Singer's work, and that was fine with Fletcher (he ended up with an executive producer credit). "I had Rocket, you see?" he says. "I had my new love, and I was happy."

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While Fletcher had his head down making Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody was racking up awards and box office grosses. But for a while, it seemed as if the movie had directed itself. At the Golden Globes in January, when Bohemian Rhapsody won best drama, no one mentioned Singer or Fletcher in their speeches. (At the BAFTAs in February, Malek did mention Fletcher.) Of Singer, Fletcher says, "In the course of time, the truth will out. Whatever it is, it's his issues. That shit doesn't define what this shit is. What defines [Rhapsody] is Rami, that fucking music and the millions of people who go and love that film and see it."