Austin Butler is all shook up in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ trailer
nypost.comBaz Luhrmann’s upcoming biopic.Warner Bros. dropped a full-length three-minute clip on Thursday featuring Butler dressed up as the musician — slick black hair, sunglasses and his famous bedazzled white jumpsuit — as well as Tom Hanks as his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, and Olivia DeJonge as Presley’s wife Priscilla.Hanks, 65, narrates the teaser, eerily stating: “There are some who make me out to be the villain of this here story.”A scene shows Elvis giving a moving performance on stage.
Once he finishes singing his tunes, Parker says to him, “Are you born with destiny? Or does it just come knocking at your door?”“At that moment I watched that skinny boy transform into a superhero.
He was my destiny,” Parker notes.However, not everyone had burning love for Butler portraying Presley. On Twitter, some were confused over the casting choice while others slammed Butler for not looking like he embodied the role.One user said “Tudors” star Jonathan Rhys Meyers would have been a better choice. “I know Jonathan Rhys Meyers is a LITTLE bit older these days but he looks spot-on as Elvis and I think still would have been an amazing choice…still happy for Austin though.””Idk man, I don’t see Elvis, Austin’s face is too pretty for that.
I don’t feel the blues,” another added. “[He] looks more like John Travolta than Elvis Presley,” said another fan. “This looks awful,” someone simply tweeted.
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