Tom Hanks in Talks to Play Colonel Tom Parker in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley Movie

March 28, 2019

It has been five years since I took to Vine (remember that app?) to reveal that Baz Luhrmann would direct an Elvis Presley biopic for Warner Bros. and now, at long last, the project is finally preparing to go before cameras, as two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is in negotiations to play 'Colonel' Tom Parker in the untitled film. Parker was Elvis' manager, though he was so much more than that, and he became an icon in his own right. He discovered Presley as a young unknown in the mid-1950s and helped build his career as both a …

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