Elvis is a 2022 biographical musical drama film directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Austin Butler in the title role and Tom Hanks, and co-starring Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., David Wenham, and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 25, 2022, and was released in Australia on June 23, 2022, and in the United States on June 24, 2022 by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Plot[]
In 1997, Elvis Presley's (Austin Butler) former manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks), is on his deathbed, having suffered a stroke. Nursing a gambling addiction that has left him destitute, he looks back on how he first met the future King of Rock and Roll.
Cast[]
- Austin Butler as Elvis Presley
- Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker
- Olivia DeJonge as Priscilla Presley
- Helen Thomson as Gladys, Elvis's mother
- Richard Roxburgh as Vernon, Elvis's father
- Kelvin Harrison Jr. as B.B. King
- David Wenham as Hank Snow
- Kodi Smit-McPhee as Jimmie Rodgers Snow
- Luke Bracey as Jerry Schilling
- Dacre Montgomery as Steve Binder
- Leon Ford as Tom Diskin
- Gary Clark Jr. as Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- Yola as Sister Rosetta Tharpe
- Natasha Bassett as Dixie Locke
- Xavier Samuel as Scotty Moore
- Adam Dunn as Bill Black
- Alton Mason as Little Richard
- Shonka Dukureh as Big Mama Thornton / Pentecostal singer
- Sharon Brooks as Sylvia Shemwell of the Sweet Inspirations