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Riley Keough connected Austin Butler Portraying Her Grandfather Elvis
A caller Elvis has entered the building.
Fresh off Austin Butler's knockout show arsenic the King of Rock and Roll successful the Baz Luhrmann-directed biopic, Elvis Presley's beingness is getting different the big-screen attraction erstwhile more. And its Euphoria's Jacob Elordi who is acceptable to measurement into those iconic bluish suede shoes.
The upcoming film, called Priscilla, centers astir Elvis's wife, Priscilla Presley. "Sofia Coppola wrote and volition nonstop the diagnostic movie 'Priscilla' based connected the memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley," the A24 film's property merchandise notes. "Published successful 1985, Presley's intimate relationship of her beingness with Elvis became a New York Times Bestseller and an planetary sensation."
Mare of Easttown's Cailee Spaeny will prima other Jacob arsenic the film's titular character. (Olivia DeJonge played Priscilla successful the movie Elvis.)
Filming for this task has yet to begin, per the property release, but is acceptable to statesman successful Toronto this fall.
And it seems similar Jacob is already excited astir the role. On his Instagram Stories, the Kissing Booth alum shared a screenshot of a Deadline nonfiction announcing his and Cailee's casting.
He besides posted a black-and-white photograph of Elvis connected his Instagram page, simply captioning it "E."
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As it turns out, the actor's emotion of the famed instrumentalist and histrion is thing but caller arsenic backmost successful 2020, helium and then-girlfriend Kaia Gerber dressed up arsenic Elvis and Priscilla for Halloween
We can't assistance but already beryllium falling successful emotion with this caller iteration of Elvis.
