Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will factor in this year’s movie awards races. With his latest feature Elvis, Baz Lu…
movie the complicated relationship between the King of Rock and Roll and his Dutch-born manager Colonel Tom Parker . While Parker helped launched Elvis’ career into the stratosphere after signing him in 1956, undoubtedly playing a role in his becoming the bestselling solo musical artist of all time, he’s remembered as a Svengali rather than a visionary given his financial exploitation of Presley over the span of 20-plus years.
Luhrmann has told Deadline over the course of the 2022-23 awards season that he sees Elvis’ story as one of “the selling of the soul” — of a sensitive “artist” brought to both his highest and lowest points by a domineering “ringmaster.” His film at the same time acknowledges that Presley was no saint, having battled demons of his own.
Luhrmann and his wife Catherine Martin produced the pic with Gail Berman, Patrick McCormick and Schuyler Weiss.
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