A24 has just released the first trailer for the Priscilla Presley biopic, “Priscilla.” The film is directed by Sofia Coppola, and is based on the 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me.”
The film tracks the relationship between the singer and his only wife from the beginning. With the high school-aged Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) adjusting to her family’s relocation to Germany. Then, in a moment almost too good to be true, she meets the one and only Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) at a party. Presley almost immediately falls head over heels for a girl ten years his junior. Her parents, understandably question the relationship.
“Just what is the intent here, Mr. Presley?” her father asks. “You’ve got women throwing themselves at you. Why my daughter?”
Elvis then justifies the courtship with the classic red flag; “she’s much more mature than her age.” An old chestnut that has probably never been uttered by a man with good intentions. Soon after the trailer begins to show his controlling ways bubbling up, starting out with a makeover. Giving the teenager new jet black hair and vampy eye makeup, of course, at his request. “I don’t know if I like it,” Priscilla says after the initial makeover. Clearly uncomfortable while keeping a soft and timid tone, to sugarcoat her objection.
Things don’t get much better from there. Jumping from their wedding to parenthood, while the couple’s relationship continues to get more and more toxic.
All of this uncomfortable tension is wrapped up in Coppola’s signature style, think “Marie Antoinette,” but with 1960s American sensibilities. It also includes her trademark use of inntenionally era-inappropriate music.
“Priscilla” also stars Dagmara Domińczyk, Raine Monroe Boland, Emily Mitchell, Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll, Jorja Cadence, and Luke Humphrey.
It’ll hit theaters November 3rd. Watch the trailer now:
