The King has arrived! The primary trailer for the highly-anticipated ‘Elvis’ biopic dropped on February 17. Austin Butler kills it because the King of Rock and Roll.
We're all shook up over the primary official Elvis trailer. The upcoming biopic debuted new footage on February 17. Austin Butler utterly transforms into the rock and roll icon, from his look to his unimaginable vocals. The trailer takes us by Elvis’ rise to superstardom and provides us glimpses of all of Elvis’ iconic seems to be in his heyday.
Along with Austin, the forged of Elvis is stacked. Tom Hanks performs Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis’ supervisor. The Oscar winner undergoes an intense transformation for this function. The Society alum Olivia DeJonge performs Priscilla Presley. Extra stars embody Yola Quartey as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Luke Bracey as Jerry Schilling, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as B.B. King, and Dacre Montgomery as Steve Binder.
The primary teaser was launched by director Baz Luhrmann in November 2021. The footage options Austin as Elvis in a number of settings, however we solely see the again of his head. The Elvis music “Suspicious Minds” performs within the teaser.
Austin was introduced in July 2019 because the actor who would play Elvis within the biopic. There was an in depth casting course of and plenty of of Hollywood’s most gifted actors have been up for the function, together with Harry Types, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Luhrmann raved over the actor’s efficiency as Elvis in a 2020 interview. “I all the time keep away from getting in and heralding the work we’re doing earlier than we do it, however throughout the testing course of, his dedication, his transformative talents from the younger Elvis to past, he had been enjoying so very effectively,” he instructed Deadline. “He was terrific. There was such nice power and pleasure within the forged and firm, in regards to the present we have been about to shoot.”
Elvis was initially alleged to be launched in 2021, but it surely was pushed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The official launch date is now June 24, 2022.