‘Elvis’ Movie From Director Baz Luhrmann Delayed Until 2022
By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 29, 2021 2:00 pm EST
The news comes to us from Variety, who report that Luhrmann’s Elvis movie is moving from its November 5, 2021 release date to June 3, 2022. This move also will keep Elvis from joining the other 2021 Warner Bros. movies that are all headed to HBO Max on the same day they hit theaters. As of now, WB swears that the HBO Max release strategy isn’t going to extend into 2022. But that could always change.
This entire experience resulted in production on Elvis being shut down. Production on the film picked back up in September 2020. Now, almost a year after Hanks’ diagnosis, here we are again. In addition to Hanks, Elvis stars Austin Butler as Elvis Presley and Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla Presley, and features Kelvin Harrison Jr. as B.B. King, Alton Mason as Little Richard, and a cast that also includes Yola, Luke Bracey, Dacre Montgomery, Richard Roxburgh, and more.
Elvis “captures the complex dynamic between the veteran manager and the young singer over the span of 20 years, including Presley’s stratospheric rise into the eventual King of Rock and Roll.”
I have to admit I’m completely burned out on musician biopics, primarily because they all follow the same damn formula – a formula that was perfectly spoofed in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a movie that should’ve put the final nail the musician biopic coffin. But Luhrmann is an interesting director and I’m hopeful he’ll try something new with his take on the story of the King of Rock’n Roll.
