By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Director Baz Luhrmann was days from starting production on his untitled Elvis Presley film when his Col Tom Parker, Tom Hanks, came down with the coronavirus symptoms that shut down production instantly.
The filmmaker has been safely tucked away with wife and collaborator Catherine Martin and their kids. Though they live in New York, the family stayed in their native Australia and he spoke with Deadline after they’d completed fishing and crabbing –while maintaining proper social distancing — and in between Luhrmann’s efforts to create a new Sunscreen, a pandemic-relevant update to his 1979 smash hit song that mixed spoken word with music.
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