Yesterday Deadline‘s Michael Fleming reported that there are just four contenders vying, and to be screen-tested, for the Elvis Presley role in Baz Luhrmann‘s upcoming biopic. Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, West Side Story); Miles Teller (Whiplash), Harry Styles (Dunkirk) and Austin Butler (The Dead Don’t Die) are the four possibilities. The film has already cast Tom Hanks as Presley’s manager Colonel Tom Parker.
Amazon/MGM Studios has dated the live-action/CGI hybrid, starring Dwayne Johnson and directed by Benny Safdie, as a family-friendly holiday movie for December 25, 2027.