Nearly 45 years after his death, Elvis gets his biggest movie treatment ever, and latest shot at a new audience
Tom Hanks stars as Col. Tom Parker and Austin Butler is Elvis Presley in Warner Bros. Pictures’ “Elvis,” which opens Friday, June 24. Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” is a lavish retelling of Presley’s life that has renewed hopes for a new era of Elvis interest. (Courtesy Hugh Stewart)
“Elvis” is the biggest-ever Elvis movie and Elvis is arguably — maybe inarguably — the biggest-ever Memphian. But what will the film ultimately mean for Memphis and one of its most popular tourist attractions?
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Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
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