It turns out that the crucial casting choice is not the actor, but the director.
#Yt music icon aesthetic movie
It’s a decent TV movie that decorously draws the curtain in 1970, before Presley’s decline and death. But only one drama has told his story straight: 1979’s Elvis, directed by horror maven John Carpenter and starring Kurt Russell. His legend has been dissected and explored for meaning by questing documentaries like The King. His distinctive cadences and energy have been channeled into other, fictional roles, like Nicolas Cage’s Sailor Ripley in Wild at Heart. He’s been summoned as a symbolic spirit by Val Kilmer in True Romance and Bruce Campbell in Bubba Ho-Tep. Since his run at movie stardom in the 1960s, the King has haunted cinema like a ghost. And it turns out that Moulin Rouge! director Baz Luhrmann is the perfect choice to make an Elvis movie. So it’s surprising that it’s taken until 2022 for anyone to make a large-scale biopic about the greatest music icon of them all, the originator of rock stardom, Elvis Presley. They trade on singalong appeal, showy star performances, and brand recognition that would make even Disney envious, and they’re often box-office bankers: The 2018 Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody made an incredible $ 911 million worldwide. Musical biographies are one of the most reliable genres in Hollywood’s arsenal.