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Screenwriter John Fusco has taken on the job of adapting Peter Guralnick’s Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, the book that Fox has been trying to pull together for more than a decade. Steve Bing is producing the film now for Fox 2000. The book covers the formative years of Presley up to his enlistment in the Army. Fusco has been busy writing the Starz series pilot Marco Polo for The Weinstein Company and Electus. On the feature front, John Lee Hancock has come attached to his script Highwaymen, the Casey Silver-produced film that takes a look at the Bonnie & Clyde story, from the vantage point of the lawmen who came out of retirement to end their robbery reign. That was the project that had been set up as a potential final pairing of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting tandem of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, but Newman’s health was failing and the project never got off the ground. Fusco’s repped by UTA and Anonymous Content.
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another Elvis the early years movie….how much do we need? What’s there to say that wasn’t in the Kurt Russell – John Carpenter movie?
When is someone going to make a Life After Elvis movie?
Someone did, it was called “Bubba Ho-Tep.”
Another project that was being designed as a Redford/Newman late career vehicle was “The Napoleon of Crime” by Ben Macintyre.
These books were excellent. I’d look forward to a candid and humanizing portrayal of Elvis – I think it’d be very different from what we’ve seen in the past.
Thing is..how inclusive could the movie be? It took TWO books to tell the Elvis story…
HIGHWAYMEN is an amazingly well-written script. This project is perfect for John Fusco. Does such amazing character work and he’ll surely find a way to make it interesting and entertaining. Loved his stuff since YOUNG GUNS. Such fascinating subject matter. This was a smart hire by Fox 2000.
Has anyone ever thought of pairing Robert Redford with Jack Nicholson in one of the defunct projects once considered for a Newman and Redford re-teaming? Both men don’t work often enough as actors and could be good together.
There are two stories, both not necessarily related. The first said Johnny Depp wanted the role of Elvis in a movie about his last years. Too bad, it would have been nice if he´s been called top play him before, when he could do a complete one. Now comes this one, about Presley´s early years but as someone mentioned already, in these here threads, a movie about half his life, a portion of it, or two nthirds (like the John Carpenter one), would leave the public wanting to see the rest. In fact, there are 24 bios of Presley, mostly made for TV, even 2 mini´series, some covering two years, some 10, some 17 years but none covers his entire public life. When it is done, it should be directed by super fans Tarantino, Eastwood, Spielberg or Lucas.
The second book, “The Unmaking of Elvis Presley,” would make for a much more interesting movie.
No doubt, but what would establish the exact nature of the huge power of Presley over people then, and even today (example, the reason you and I are here, in this thread..), lies in the thousands of Elvis stories, told by the people who met him along the way (not those that worked for or with him, but the ones whose lives crossed his, inadvertantly), passed on by word of mouth through threr generations, thus far. They are extraordinary, showing a person so caring of others and so much fun just to even be with, for whatever space pof time, that once they met, it changed their lives. If all Fusco does is base the movie on Guralnick´s first of two biographies of Elvis, he´ll not succeed. But if the movie concentrates on those people whose lives were changed by their merely being able to inter-act with him, then the people who see the movie will finally understand why this guy will never go away (LOL).
I’m not an Elvis fan but I read the book because of all the awestruck reviews. It’s outstanding, almost a Shakespearean tragedy. Careless Love is even better. That said, there is no way a film could match the books. This is going to need to major talent behind the camera to meet expectations.
As a big Elvis fan I look forward to the making of ‘Last Train To Memphis’ outlining Elvis’ exponential rise to fame in the fifties. I would not wish to see a follow-up with ‘Careless Love’as there has been too much negativity already written about Elvis’ decline. He did so much for music and deserves to be honoured by a film worthy of his immense talent, charisma and humanitarian endeavours.
Agree with you Brian 100%