Sofia Coppola is setting her sights on Priscilla Presley for her next filmmaking venture. As Variety reports, the director’s next film will be based upon Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis And Me, which detailed her marriage with Elvis Presley.
Written and directed by Coppola, the film, which has been simply titled Priscilla, will feature Mare Of Easttown regular Cailee Spaeny in the title role with Australian actor Jacob Elordi slated to take on the role of Elvis. Filming is reportedly set to begin in the coming months in Toronto.
The story of Elvis and Priscilla Presley was previously captured in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic Elvis:
Coppola’s forthcoming project follows on from the widespread success of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic, which was released earlier this year. Austin Butler played the role of Elvis Presley, alongside Australian actress Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla. In the lead up to its release, the real Priscilla Presley took to Facebook to heap praise upon the casting and storytelling involved in Luhrmann’s feature.
Notably, Coppola’s feature will be the second time that Elvis And Me has been adapted, with the memoir having been made into a television movie in 1988. Upon its release, the movie – which featured Dale Midkiff as Elvis and Susan Walters as Priscilla – brought in more than 30 million viewers.
Coppola’s career as a film director stretches back more than two decades to 1999’s The Virgin Suicides, an adaptation of the Jeffrey Eugenides novel of the same name. More recently, Coppola wrote and directed the comedy-drama On the Rocks starring Bill Murray and Rashida Jones and directed a remake of the 1971 film The Beguiled, starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell.
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