{"id":5731,"date":"2019-03-29T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2019-04-01T20:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T20:07:01","slug":"tom-hanks-in-talks-to-star-in-baz-luhrmanns-elvis-presley-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/tom-hanks-baz-luhrmann-elvis-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Hanks In Talks To Star In Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s Elvis Presley Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"blog-post-deck\">\n<div>Tom Hanks in an Elvis movie, from the director of\u00a0<em>Moulin Rouge<\/em>? Sign us up!<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hanks is in negotiations to play Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley&#8217;s legendary (and very controlling) manager, for director Baz Luhrmann and Warner Bros., according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/tom-hanks-talks-join-baz-luhrmanns-elvis-presley-movie-1196323\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>While the search for an actor to play Elvis has yet to begin, the movie will reportedly be a two-hander that follows The King&#8217;s rise to stardom while exploring his relationship with Parker.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The untitled film marks Luhrmann&#8217;s first movie since 2013&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, which was also for Warner Bros. Luhrmann wrote the script for the Elvis-Parker story with Craig Pierce, who also cowrote\u00a0<em>Gatsby\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Moulin Rouge\u00a0<\/em>with the director.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Production is eyeing a fall 2019 start, giving Hanks plenty of time to finish shooting his current project, the Amblin sci-fi drama\u00a0<em>Bios<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A release date for the Hanks-Luhrmann project has yet to be announced, but we will keep you posted. This is definitely one movie you wanna keep on your radar.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Hanks in an Elvis movie, from the director of\u00a0Moulin Rouge? Sign us up! Hanks is in negotiations to play Col. Tom Parker, Elvis Presley&#8217;s legendary (and very controlling) manager, for director Baz Luhrmann and Warner Bros., according to\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter. While the search for an actor to play Elvis has yet to begin, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5741,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}