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Eric Bana and Danny Huston will star in Elvis & Nixon, an indie that marks the directing debut of actor Cary Elwes, who wrote the script with Joey Sagal and Hanala Sagal. The film’s funded by Benaroya Pictures. The film is based on a 1970 powwow between Presley (Bana) and Nixon (Huston) when the former petitioned to be a Federal Agent at Large in the war against drugs, which in hindsight seems a bit odd. Presley brought a Colt .45 pistol as a gift to the president. Bana will be exec producer. He’ll next star in the Lakeshore thriller Brilliant and just wrapped Blackbird.
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Haha! This sounds like a funny, weird movie. Good luck to the filmmakers!
OH NO! not another movie about Elvis.
This could be brilliant… Elvis enters the White House, makes himself at home in the Oval Office, while carrying a gun and as high as a kite… and then charms the president into making him a Federal Agent. It has to be a comedy, right?
Elvis was NOT high as a kite. This myth keeps coming up. I asked Sonny West, directly, who was there with Jerry Schilling. Elvis had taken cough medicine. That’s all.
This crazy insistence that Elvis was high all the time during the 70′s is vastly incorrect.
True story: Elvis petitioned to be made honorary DEA officer because he had a collection of police badges and he couldn’t get the DEA one, because it was strictly reserved to officers and they couldn’t make an exception for him. So, he wrote Nixon to request the title. Nixon jumped on the occasion and accepted the request if Elvis agreed to go to the White House and pose for pictures. Elvis got the badge.
Another true story: Richard Nixon was a drug mule. He was a big fan Louis Armstrong and, as a congressman or V.P., returned from Europe on the same plane as him. Armstrong always carried pot in a spare trumpet case (he smoked weed everyday, one of the pleasures of his life, with laxatives). He pretended he was a little sick and asked Nixon if he could carry his trumpet case. Tricky Dicky was delighted to help him and went with the case and the full stash through the customs.
This was already done years ago, directed by Alan Arkush w/bob Gunton as Nixon. And it was terriific and incredibly overlooked. Can;t believe noboy recalls it. I believe Showtime showed it.
Your’re right, Irv. Gunton was pretty awful as NIxon though. And I believe it was actually a Showtime produced MOW. It’s called Elvis Meets Nixon. I’ve got it ob VHS.
And written by Alan Rosen.
This sounds good.
Eric Banal as Elvis Aaron Presley? There’s a reason that Elvis remains one of the most famous people in the world… He was on fire for most of his life. He was stunning. From what I’ve seen, Bana = nappy time. And good luck with that Mississippi/Memphis accent. Unless they plan on playing this way over the top, I don’t get it.
WOW! This sounds brilliant. Bana as Elvis sounds PERFECT! He’s an amazing actor and my bet is that Elwes will be a wonderful director. Also Huston as Nixon… GREAT!!!! CANNOT WAIT TO SEE IT!
Take it down a notch, Cary.
when somebody praises a project it has to be its own artist, right?
this thing is so effing old. 12 yr olds do this.
Take it down a notch, Cassian.
Lori has to be Bana’s agent. Bana is the acting equivalent of Ambien. He can’t open a movie at all. He tried with Speilberg & failed. He tried a comic book movie & failed. He even tried being in an adaptation of a successful book and failed.
He must be a great “in person interview” at the studios.
Cary is an absolute stand up dude, and this will rock. The script is hilarious, weird, observational and like all the presidents men meets secret honor meets bubba ho tep. could be something if the budget lets them really do the periosd and the scope – travelling from nashville to LA the DC. can not wait.
Showtime did do this years ago. And it was hilarious. “My boy my boy!”
sounds good
This is where Elvis tells Pres. Nixon that the Beatles were bad news and should be banned.
What a blast, sounds like a totally entertaining ride.
Bana’s career lost it’s way the moment he stopped being what he is good at, and which is so rare amongst American actors: The Alpha Male.
He instead decided to focus on films like The Time Traveller’s Wife and The Other Boleyn Girl.
Whoever is giving him career advice post Munich, needs to be cut off from doing any further damage.
Hey, Eric: Start playing Real Men again. It’s what Hollywood needs more of, and it’s what you are a natural at.
Rarely is there a project that actually has heart. Made with real artists. I’m excited! Bana is immensly talented, Huston is the real deal, and Cary Elwes directing is a stroke of genius. FINALLY!
Rarely is there a project that actually has heart. Made with real artists. I’m excited! Bana is immensly talented, Huston is the real deal, and Cary Elwes directing is a stroke of genius. FINALLY!
I’ve read about this from several different sources (the Elvis meets Nixon episode).
The most shocking thing I read was: Nixon didn’t know who Elvis Presley was when told that “Elvis is here to see you.”