A source tells Billboard that Jacob Elordi was Coppola’s “first choice” to play the King of Rock and Roll.
, which will star Cailee Spaeny as Mrs. Presley alongside Elordi. The biopic, which begins filming in Toronto this fall, is based on Priscilla Presley’s memoirPresley was only 14 when she met Elvis, who was 23 at the time, at a party in 1959.
A courtship quickly began and her strict parents reluctantly gave in to the star’s persistence. The teenager eventually moved into the Graceland estate. The couple married in 1967 and had their only child, Lisa Marie Presley, the following year. Priscilla and Elvis eventually split in 1973 after six tumultuous years of marriage.
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