The Last King
of Scotland director Kevin MacDonald has signed up to direct the Elvis Presley
biopic Last Train to Memphis, according to Variety.
The film follows Presley's early years and is based
on the best-selling 1995 Peter Guralnick biography.
Film company 20th Century Fox have launched an open
casting call for a young actor to play Elvis.
At the Young
Elvis Casting website actors aged between 18 and 22 can submit audition
tapes.
The site describes the film as the story of Presley's
"against-all-odds success due to his uncanny gift for self-invention, his
unstoppable drive, and the new sound he created that changed the music world
forever".
MacDonald directed the 2012 documentary Marley about
the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.
The film is being produced by Mick Jagger and
Victoria Pearman at Jagged Films along with Steve Bing's Shangri-La company.
Jagger is also producing the up-coming James Brown
biopic Get On Up.
A Jimi Hendrix biopic, All Is By My Side - starring
OutKast musician Andre 3000, is showing at this year's Toronto Film Festival.
Source: BBC
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