![]() ![]() It was previously reported that the budget for the project is still being ironed out. RELATED: Bohemian Rhapsody’s Anthony McCarten to Script Bee Gees Biopic Andrew Mittman will serve as an executive producer Luhrmann will also produce alongside Oscar winner Catherine Martin ( The Great Gatsby), Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick, and Schuyler Weiss. Parker was responsible for various milestones, including Presley’s record deal with RCA and his successful acting career.Įlvis biopic will be co-written by Luhrmann, who will direct, and BAFTA winner Craig Pearce ( Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!). The movie will explore the life and music of Elvis through his complicated relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Parker discovered Presley when he was just an unknown and quickly moved in as his lone representation. ![]() RELATED: Timothée Chalamet in Talks to Star in James Mangold’s Bob Dylan BiopicĪustin Butler ( Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Dead Don’t Die) is starring in the lead role as Elvis alongside Oscar winner Tom Hanks ( A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, The Post), who is playing Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker, and Olivia DeJonge ( The Visit), who will play Presley’s only wife Priscilla. His other notable film credits include: Hamlet, A Knight’s Tale, The Legend of Zorro, The Illusionist and he will next be seen in the drama film The Father opposite Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins and A Knight’s Tale Olivia Colman. Sewell recently starred in Rupert Goold’s biopic drama Judy starring alongside Oscar winner Renee Zellweger. Sewell is set to portray the role of Presley’s father Vernon Presley, who was the one that handled the King of Rock’s finances due to his constant fear of returning to poverty. The Harder They Fall giving Nat his scar purposefully nudged the protagonist into his outlaw lifestyle, with Rufus waiting for Nat to finally take the same revenge he had.Following the recent addition of Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal as Gladys Presley, Variety brings word that The Man in the High Castle alum Rufus Sewell has joined the cast of director Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming musical biopic, centering on the life of legendary rock star Elvis Presley. ![]() For The Harder They Fall's historical characters, the cross could have also been a test to see whether their father as a saintly man would mean his new son would follow suit - if Nat was raised by their father positively, why should he turn into a criminal like Rufus? By watching Nat become a notorious outlaw - though, with the vigilante morals of only stealing from other outlaws - Rufus would be falsely proving to himself that their father had never really changed and that becoming a criminal wasn’t his own doing. When Rufus would see Nat again, the cross would remind him of his anger for their father dually feeling jealous over Nat experiencing him as a good parent and rage at his father for abusing and abandoning him. Nat and Rufus’s moral comparison is also highlighted by the words Mary utters to Nat right after he’s killed Rufus, “ Is the devil dead?” Nat responds that he doesn’t know, indicating that Rufus really wasn’t the devil at all, realizing he was absorbed with the same anger at their father that Nat had for Rufus. ![]() Throughout The Harder They Fall, Nat and Rufus represent different sides of good and evil, and this dichotomy is fully realized once it’s revealed that they’re brothers. If Nat represented their father as a saint, Rufus embodied their father when he was closest to the devil. The cross, specifically, was a symbol of how Idris Elba's movie character looked at Nat, thinking of him as a product of their father’s hypocritical new identity. ![]()
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