Elvis Presley biopic Baz Luhrman will finally hit theaters on June 24, 2022. The Australian director confirmed the release date in November last year and released the first full trailer for the film this Thursday, to be called simply Elvis.
The trailer revealed that the actor austin butler has been cast as Elvis in the biopic. The 27-year-old was chosen to play the singer, beating out some truly stellar names to play the King of Rock and Roll, such as Harry Styles and Ansel Elgort.
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Those who recognize Austin Butler will most likely be for Once upon a time in… Hollywoodby Quentin Tarantino, where he had a small role as one of the members of the Manson family, named Tex Watson.
According to reports, Ansel Elgort, Harry Styles and even the star of whiplashMiles Teller, moved their hips in auditions for the role before the Oscar-winning director settled on Butler.
“I had heard of Austin Butler for his breakout role opposite Denzel Washington in The Iceman Cometh, on Broadway (…). I knew unequivocally that I had found someone who could embody the spirit of one of the most iconic musical figures in the world,” Baz said of the actor. Nickelodeon and Disney.
The actor, in fact, posted the news on Instagram, quoting a line from Elvis’ hit. love me tender: “You have completed my life and I love you so much”. Austin’s partner, Vanessa Hudgens, replied: “I’m over the moon, I can’t wait. So proud of you, darling!”
The role of Priscilla is also assumed by a newcomer to Hollywood: the Australian actress Olivia DeJonge21 years old.
But one figure that the public will easily recognize is Tom Hanks: He will appear as Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’s manager. He was a former carnival worker who launched El Rey’s career in the mid-’50s by negotiating a contract for him at RCA, eventually staying with Elvis until his death in 1977.
Since the release of Elvis’s first hit single, Heart Break HotelFrom then on, Parker had almost obsessive control over the musician, taking a significant portion of his royalties and influencing his every professional decision (including his much-derided post-war transition to Hollywood) as well as his personal side (especially his entire marriage to Priscilla, which Parker realized would generate publicity).
They also appear in the film: Yola Quarteyas the singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe; Luke Braceyas Elvis’ old buddy Jerry Schilling; Kevin Harrison Jr.like BB King; Richard Roxburgh, as Elvis’s father, Vernon; Helen Thomson, as Elvis’s mother, Gladys; David Wenham, as Hank Snow; and Alton Mason, like Little Richard.
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