The Race to produce an Elvis Movie Will get Warmer

This story first came out inside the November. 18 problem in the Hollywood Reporter magazine.our editor recommends20 Best and Worst Music to Movie Crossovers7 Music to Movie Company company directors: Michael Bay, David Fincher, Spike JonzeElizabeth Taylor Joins Michael Jackson and Elvis on Finest-Producing Dead Stars ListElvis Presley Movie Names Director Elvis Estate Sues to recoup Ring-tone RevenueElvis Presley's Birthday Mistake By Michele BachmannLady Gaga Will Probably Be as 'Big as Elvis,A States Tony Bennett Forget departing the structure. If the involves movies, the King of Rock 'n' Roll hasn't even turned up.For any very long time, Hollywood players in the The American Idol Show Show creator Simon Bigger to billionaire producer Steve Bing have attempted to produce a biopic about Elvis. The singer -- whose superstardom dovetailed by getting an abusive relationship with manager "Colonel" Tom Parker, a rocky romance with wife Priscilla Presley and battles with drugs that brought to his 1977 dying from cardiac event at 42 -- seems perfect fodder for your silver screen. PHOTOS: 20 Best and Worst Music to Movie Crossovers But numerous key issues stand in the way, within the narrative challenges presented by Elvis' complicated and often dark personal story to coping with CKX Corporation., the business that controls Presley's music, image together with other intellectual property. While films about Presley's contemporaries -- think 2004's Ray, about Ray Charles, or 2005's Walk the street, about Johnny Cash, each produced while using artist's blessing -- are actually released to critical and commercial success, a biopic about possibly most likely probably the most legendary music figure ever remains unmade. That might be changing. No matter the difficulties, four unauthorized Presley projects will be in different stages of development. Each occupies the topic in different ways: Bing's project, setup at Fox 2000 and good biography Last Train to Memphis, is predicted to become traditional biopic The Identical features a belief-based bent and concentrates on an Elvis impersonator Fame & Fortune is modified in the memoir having a Presley bodyguard together with a project funded by producer Michael Benaroya (Margin Call), titled Elvis & Nixon, concentrates on an encounter involving the singer as well as the leader. "There is a lot to conquer if this involves meeting or beating people's anticipation," states Benaroya, whose project has cast Eric Bana as Presley and Danny Huston as Richard Nixon. PHOTOS: 7 Music to Movie Company company directors: Michael Bay, David Fincher, Spike Jonze Elvis & Nixon isn't really the only Presley project to include notables: Within The month of the month of january, it absolutely was introduced that Youthful Guns scribe John Fusco would adapt Last Train for Fox 2000, too as with September, John Scheinfeld, author-director in the 2006 doc The U.S. versus. John Lennon, signed onto direct Fame & Fortune for RLF Victor Productions. The moves declare that Hollywood remains greatly considering Presley. Inside the right hands, the role might be coveted having a-list stars. But obtaining the King's music might be like thinking about Heartbreak Hotel. Some filmmakers desire to license Presley's music in the new the new sony BMG, which has the singer's tracks. Nevertheless the infamously tightfisted CKX, which acquired 85 percent of Elvis Companies from Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, for $100 million in 2005, must approve all uses. (EPE has no less than a share of a lot of the greater than 700 plans Presley recorded.) Given CKX's fierce protectiveness in the Elvis image and also the cost of certification music, that could encounter the hundreds of thousands of dollars per track, others aren't even disturbing to take advantage of Presley tunes. "CKX isn't asked for any licenses to Elvis's music by these film projects, nor has it granted any," states a representative. The business declined further comment. Related Subjects Eric Bana Simon Bigger Elvis Steve Bing 1 2 3 next last