By Etienne Sorin Posted on 06/21/2022 at 1:03 p.m., Update on 06/21/2022 at 1:03 p.m. “Making a biopic about Elvis didn’t interest me. I wanted to treat it like Shakespeare, who takes a historical character and makes it something else,” says Baz Luhrmann. Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP MAINTENANCE – The Australian director tells how, through the […]
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Jean-Christophe Buisson: “Elvis, the puffy king”
CHRONICLE – In a spectacular film, Baz Luhrmann brings King Elvis back to life in the light of his relationship with his impresario. What would Camille Claudel have been without Rodin, Celine Dion without René and Mireille Mathieu without Johnny Stark? The cinema has provided its answer (“not much”) for the first two. He offers […]
Baz Luhrmann unveils the first images of his biopic on Elvis
Delayed by the pandemic, the film will finally be released in June 2022. This biopic will focus on the relationship between the “King” and his historic manager, Colonel Parker. Neither the first nor the last, but this new biopic on Elvis Presley is promising. The first images were revealed on Monday by director Baz Luhrmann […]