After casting considerations that included Harry Styles, Miles Teller, and more of your famous boyfriends, Romeo + Juliet director Baz Luhrmann has found the right leading man to play the king … or Long Island (2013's "The Great Gatsby").And the new Elvis is ... Austin Butler.Butler also has been a fixture in celebrity magazines because his girlfriend is singer-actress Vanessa Hudgens, star of the Disney "High School Musical" movie series.Luhrmann apparently has been working on his Elvis project with his producer wife, Catherine Martin, and screenwriter, Craig Pearce, since the team finished their previous project "The Great Gatsby," with Leonardo DiCaprio as a somewhat Elvisesque figure: a self-made millionaire whose wealth and mansion-isolation do not bring happiness.“I knew I couldn’t make this film if the casting wasn’t absolutely right, and we searched thoroughly for an actor with the ability to evoke the singular natural movement and vocal qualities of this peerless star, but also the inner vulnerability of the artist," Luhrmann said, in a statement released Monday.The casting of the 27-year-old actor-singer ends what The Hollywood Reporter characterized as an "intense search" during which the director conducted screen tests with Butler, Harry Styles, Ansel Elgort, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Miles Teller. "If your reaction is "Who?," you probably are an Older American, unfamiliar with Butler's recurring roles over the past decade-plus in more than a half-dozen Nickelodeon, Disney, CW and MTV television series.Butler's fans also include auteurs Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino, who cast the actor in their most recent films, "The Dead Don't Die" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Biopic Casts Austin Butler In Lead Role Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic finds its star in Austin Butler, who beat off stiff competition including Ansel Elgort and Harry Styles for the role.
These include Nickelodeon's "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide"; the Schneider-created "Zoey 101"; ABC Family's "Ruby and the Rockits" and "Switched at Birth"; The CW Network's "Life Unexpected" and "The Carrie Diaries" (about the high school years of "Sex and the City" protagonist Carrie Bradshaw); and the MTV/Spike production "The Shannara Chronicles," adapted from the best-selling fantasy novels by Terry Brooks.The film is scheduled to be shot next year in Australia, where Lurhmann typically makes his movies, whether the setting is France (2001's "Moulin Rouge!") Austin Robert Butler was born in Anaheim, California, to Lori Anne (Howell), an aesthetician, and David Butler.
"Throughout the casting process, it was an honor for me to encounter such a vast array of talent. AUSTIN BUTLER is the actor who’ll play Elvis Presley in a new biopic about the King of Rock’n’Roll. https://ew.com/movies/2019/07/15/baz-luhrmann-austin-butler-elvis-biopic Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller, Austin Butler, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Harry Styles auditioned and tested for the role of Elvis Presley. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.On a post-apocalyptic earth, a robot, built to protect the life of his creator's beloved dog, learns about life, love, friendship and what it means to be human.Keep up with all the biggest announcements and updates with IMDb's breaking news roundup of Comic-Con@Home 2020.Early in World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy captain must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by Nazi U-boat wolfpacks.A cranky retired man strikes up an unlikely friendship with his boisterous new neighbors. I had heard about Austin Butler from his stand-out role opposite Denzel Washington in 'The Iceman Cometh' on Broadway and through a journey of extensive screen testing and music and performance workshops, I knew unequivocally that I had found someone who could embody the spirit of one of the world's most iconic musical figures," Luhrmann said.In the untitled Elvis biopic, Butler will act alongside Tom Hanks, who will play Elvis' controlling manager, Col. Tom Parker. Austin Butler has been cast as Elvis Presley opposite Tom Hanks as Col. Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann's untitled biopic about the king of rock 'n' roll. Published on Jul 16, 2019 After it was revealed that Austin Butler will play Elvis in a new movie, Carlos Bustamante and Graeme O’Neil react during “ET Canada Live”.
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