It appears that Elvis Presley's time on the big screen isn’t over yet, although the next project set to focus on The King won't be another straight-up biopic. Sofia Coppola has an Elvis movie of her own in the works that will focus on the early romance between Elvis and Priscilla Presley. The musician's estate has apparently slammed the Oscar-winning director’s upcoming project, but Priscilla Presley herself had a more positive take on it.
Based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, Sofia Coppola’s A24 film Priscilla is from the point of view of the actress during the early stages of her marriage with Elvis Presley. This biographical film will offer a different take on the Presleys than what audiences saw in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, which had Tom Hanks in a rare “villain” role and centered on that character's business relationship with “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” This new project sounds far more interested in digging into the romance than the road to fame and fortune, with Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi starring. But as TMZ reports, the movie managed to set off the Grammy Award winner’s estate, which one official commenting on Coppola's “horrible” writing and directing. In the rep's words:
