Elvis might be at Cannes Film Festival this May. Australian director, screenwriter and producer Baz Luhrmann’s film will premiere at the seventy fifth version of the Festival on the picturesque Riviera that runs from May 17 to 28. (Also read: Can’t we have both fashion and film at Cannes, asks Anupama Chopra)
Along with Luhrmann, Austin Butler (whom we noticed in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), the celebrated Tom Hanks (Sully, Toy Story 4, News of the World) and Olivia DeJonge (Stray Dolls, Josie and Jack, The Visit) will attend the movie premiere. It is just not but clear the place Elvis could be slotted.
Butler will essay the long-lasting Elvis Presley. Dubbed because the King of Rock and Roll, Elvis died in 1977. His energetic songs and sexually charged dancing type had been the trend among the many younger and the outdated. In reality, it’s generally believed that Indian actor Shammi Kapoor copied Presley’s type as properly.
While Hanks portrays Presley’s music supervisor, Colonel Tom Parker, DeJonge might be Priscilla Presley.
The film explores the life and music of Elvis Presley, seen by the prism of his sophisticated relationship together with his supervisor, Colonel Parker. The Festival highlighted: “The story delves into the complex dynamic between Presley and Parker spanning over 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame to his unprecedented stardom, against the backdrop of the evolving cultural landscape and the loss of innocence in America. Central to that journey is one of the most significant and influential people in Elvis’ life, Priscilla Presley.”
Elvis, produced by Bazmark and The Jackal Group, will open in North America on June 24 and in the remainder of the world on June 22.
Luhrmann made historical past at the Cannes Festival by being the one director to present two function movies at the opening with Moulin Rouge! in 2001, which ran in Competition, and The Great Gatsby in 2013. In 1992, he grew to become a sensation at the forty fifth version of the Festival together with his debut function, Strictly Ballroom, screened within the A Certain Regard part.
Whil Australian actor Nicole Kidman, made enormous waves as Satine in Moulin Rouge, a hauntingly beautiful musical, Leonardo DiCaprio as Jay Gatsby proved to be the darling of the Cannes crowds.