Coppola may change script for Elvis film after his daughter’s death

It is based on an autobiographical book by the ex-wife of the king of rock and roll Priscilla

On January 12, the only daughter of the king of rock and roll Elvis Presley, 54-year-old singer Lisa Marie Presley, died in the United States. Her heart stopped. The doctors were powerless.

Two days before her death, she attended the 80th anniversary ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles with her 77-year-old mother and actress Priscilla Presley, where actor Austin Butler, who played the role of her father in Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis, received Award for Best Actor in a Drama. The Presley family came to support the picture, which Priscilla liked, which rarely happens with relatives of famous people. Austin Butler also received a Screen Actors Guild nomination, while Elvis was nominated for the Best Picture Award at the Producers Guild of America, to be announced in February.

The Golden Globes’ social media page reads: “We are sorry for the passing of Lisa Marie Presley. She was an incredibly talented singer, songwriter and very welcome guest at the Golden Globes last Tuesday.”

In Elvis, Lisa Marie Presley appears in a photograph that is displayed in her father’s apartment. The girl was four years old when her parents divorced, and nine years old when her father died in August 1977.

Priscilla Presley wrote the autobiographical book Elvis and Me in 1985, where she spoke about her childhood, the early death of her father, her stepfather, meeting Elvis and living together with him, the birth of her daughter, the death of her ex-husband. Priscilla was raised by her stepfather, a US Air Force officer. In her memoirs, she described how her family moved from one military base to another, which is always traumatic for a child. In 1956, my stepfather was transferred to Germany. On September 3, 1959, she met Elvis Presley there. She was then 14 years old, but she made an impression on him. In March 1960, he left Germany, and it seemed that they would not meet again. Almost two years later, Priscilla came to visit him in the United States. They traveled secretly, sending letters to her parents from Los Angeles with the help of reliable people.

The life of the daughter of Priscilla and Elvis is also full of the most incredible events – short marriages with Michael Jackson (from 1994-1996) and Nicolas Cage (2002-2004), the death of a 27-year-old son who voluntarily passed away on July 12, 2020. 12 is a fatal number for the family. She keeps repeating herself.

Nicolas Cage is the nephew of the American director, the author of the film trilogy “The Godfather” Francis Ford Coppola and the cousin of his daughter Sofia Coppola, who started filming the autobiographical book by Priscilla Presley, which became known again on September 12, 2022. The working title of the painting is Priscilla. Sofia Coppola is not only the director of the film, but also the author of the script, which may change in the light of the events that have taken place. Elvis Presley will be played by Jacob Elordi and Priscilla by Caylee Spaeny. Filming began in October in Toronto, where Presley once toured. This will be a story about the family life of Elvis and Priscilla.

In “Elvis” Luhrmann also talks about their relationship. Some critics believe that Austin Butler does not look like Presley at all, that this is a parody of him, but the issue is debatable, especially since Priscilla is pleased with the result. But the basis of the picture was the relationship between Elvis Presley and producer Tom Parker, with whom he worked for more than 20 years and reached the heights of his career, became a sex symbol for several generations. Fans go crazy over his sexuality, and all this is shown in the film in every detail.

It is curious that since 1958 Presley served in the American army, whose leadership had ideas to use his talent and popularity to popularize military conscription. But Presley preferred the usual service and, as a singer, did not perform there. While in Germany as part of an armored division, he met 14-year-old Priscilla. In 1967 they got married. Nine months later, their daughter Lisa Maria was born. The couple broke up in 1972 at the initiative of Priscilla, tired of her husband’s betrayals.

Shortly before Presley’s death in 1977, a scandalous book of his bodyguards, with whom Elvis was connected from a young age, was published. He was very worried about what was written about his crazy behavior and parties. All this was superimposed on the general condition of the body, exhausted by drugs and narcotic drugs. Presley took an extra dose of sedatives and died. His body, like now the body of his daughter, was found lifeless, although a few hours ago nothing foreshadowed the tragic ending. And also the attempts of doctors to save were in vain. Heart stopped.

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