Sofia Coppola picks Jacob Elordi as her Elvis in Priscilla Presley biopic
Mare Of Easttown's Cailee Spaeny will star as Mrs. Presley in the film from A24
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While the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll had his time in the spotlight this year with Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis, it’s time for Mrs. Priscilla Ann Presley to receive the star treatment. Sofia Coppola has written and will direct Priscilla, starring Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny as our Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Presley, respectively.
The A24 flick is based on Presley’s memoir Elvis And Me, which was published back in 1985. Elordi beat out several picks for the role of Elvis, while Spaeney has been Coppola’s first choice since day one, per Deadline.
While Luhrmann’s biopic focused very little on the marriage between the two—aside from its rose-tinged beginning and its eventual dissolution—it seems Priscilla will focus heavily on their romance, which began when in 1959 Priscilla was a mere 14 and Elvis was 23. The two married in 1967, and Priscilla gave birth to their only child, Lisa Marie Presley, the next year. Their marriage would be a rocky one, with both engaging in extramarital affairs that eventually led to calls for separation.
Priscilla marks Coppola’s third collaboration with A24, following 2020's On The Rocks and 2013's The Bling Ring. For Priscilla, she’s reteaming with director of photography Philippe Le Sourd, costume designer Stacey Battat, editor Sarah Flack, and production designer Tamara Deverell.
Elordi’s principally known for his role as the high school villain Nate in HBO’s Euphoria, and as the heartthrob in Netflix’s The Kissing Booth trilogy. Spaeney recently starred alongside Kate Winslet in HBO’s Mare of Easttown, and is known for her roles in Bad Times At The El Royale, On The Basis Of Sex, and Pacific Rim: Uprising.
Priscilla is set to begin filming in Toronto this fall.
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Good call. We haven’t had one of these in a while.
Cailee Spaeny (whose surname you misspelled above) also played a character on Devs who was just supposed to be a young male rather than a woman.
They just misspelled Hasan Minhaj’s name—repeatedly—the other day.
Coppola has been running on fumes for the last few films (IMHO). Hopefully this will be a good one.
Marie Antoinette is one of my favourite films from the 2000s decade so I hope she returns to exploring some of the absurdness of what it means to exist as just a person with massive influence. Elvis and Priscilla fit nicely into that theme, and I hope she doesn’t shy away from the creepier tones of their relationship.
I read Priscilla’s book as a teenager after reading that the Depeche Mode song “Personal Jesus” was inspired by it, which was a weird thing to reconcile for a 15 year old me. I am concerned since she has retroactively dismissed so much of it and said the co-writer/Editor pressured her to add things that didn’t happen. One thing I think works against her is that she participated in a book burning of Elvis’s metaphysical books because The Colonel was threatened by Elvis’s spiritual longing- I hope the film includes that part
For the biopic of a woman forever defined by the man she married , I guess it’s fitting in a way that it’s the casting of Elvis rather than the titular role that gets the headline. Shitty, but sadly fitting.
Did Cop-popola gonna lose her head again? If not I’m not watching.