Can you imagine Justin Timberlake playing Elton John?? Well according to Elton, he was considering the singer to play him in the upcoming biopic Rocketman.

Elton opened up about the film in a letter published by The Guardian on Sunday, and in it he spoke about the role — which eventually went to Taron Egerton.

“Making the thing took years,” the singer wrote. “Directors came and went — David LaChapelle was going to do it, but then he decided to focus on his fine art career — before the producer, Matthew Vaughn, who I’d met when I had a cameo role in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, suggested Dexter Fletcher. So did lead actors, Justin Timberlake and Tom Hardy were both in the frame before Taron came along.”

Say what?!