Warner Bros. recently released the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann‘s Elvis Presley biopic, Elvis.
The trailer features Tom Hanks narrating as Colonel Tom Parker, gives glimpses of Presley’s early days in Tennessee, his involvement with the Civil Rights movement, and his iconic comeback in 1968.
Hanks’ Parker kicks off the story and the trailer stating, “There are some who’d make me out to be the villain of this here story.”
“We are two, odd lonely children, reaching for eternity,” he proclaims, as he paints a tale of fame and destiny shared by the two men.
Ahead of the release of the trailer, Luhrmann introduced it to the media, describing it as “an invitation to the movie.”
“The great storytellers, like Shakespeare, they didn’t really do biographies. What they did was take a life and use a life as a canvas to explore a bigger idea,” he said. “The life of Elvis could not be a better canvas in which to explore America in the ’50s and ’60s. That life is culturally and socially at the center of the ’50s, ’60s, and even the ’70s.”
“Getting to explore the humanity of somebody who’s become the wallpaper of society in a way,” said Austin Butler, who portrays Presley in the biopic. “He’s such an icon and held up to superhuman status, so to get to explore that for years now and learn why he was the way that he was and find the human within that icon, that was such a joy. I could do it for the rest of my life.”
Elvis is scheduled to hit theaters on June 24.
(Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures)
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