The 25-year-old half-Spanish-Australian actor will star as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s film Priscilla, about the King of Rock and Roll and his wife.
Coppola will direct the feature film, which is based on the memoir Elvis and Meby Priscilla Beaulieu Presley.
Cailee Spaeny will portray Priscilla Presley opposite Elordi as Elvis.
Published in 1985, Presley’s intimate account of her life with Elvis became aNew York TimesBestseller and an international sensation. Coppola adapted the script as well.
Coppola had reportedly been eyeing this film for some time as her follow-up to On The Rocks and began putting the pieces together to the film off the ground by this fall. While she met with a number of actors for the Elvis role with Elordi ultimately landing the highly coveted role, Spaeny has been her top choice from Day 1 for the role of Priscilla.
The film will shoot in Toronto in the Fall.
Elordi is best known for his roles as Noah Flynn in Netflix‘s The Kissing Boothteen film franchise and Nate Jacobs in the HBO series Euphoria.
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Coppola will direct the feature film, which is based on the memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley.
