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    Luke Bracey to Channel Jerry Schilling in Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley Biopic

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    The forthcoming project about the ‘Suspicious Minds’ hitmaker, which is set to resume filming in Australia after COVID-19 shutdown, has Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in the cast ensemble.
    Sep 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Actor Luke Bracey is heading to Australia to join the cast of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley biopic as the rock legend’s best friend, Jerry Schilling.
    Austin Butler is portraying The King in the forthcoming project, with Tom Hanks set to play his manager Colonel Tom Parker, and now “Hacksaw Ridge” star Bracey has been added to the line-up, reports Variety.
    Schilling became one of the “Suspicious Minds” hitmaker’s closest friends after playing American football together as kids, and he was a fixture in his entourage before becoming a music manager for a variety of acts, including The Beach Boys, Jerry Lee Lewis and even Elvis’ daughter, singer Lisa Marie Presley, later in life.
    Alex Pettyfer previously portrayed Schilling in 2016’s movie “Elvis & Nixon”.
    Also featured in Luhrmann’s first feature film since 2013’s “The Great Gatsby” are Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rufus Sewell, who have been cast as Elvis’ parents, Gladys and Vernon.
    Pre-production in Queensland, Australia had to be paused back in March when Hanks and his wife, actress/singer Rita Wilson, contracted COVID-19 as the pandemic shut down the global entertainment industry for months.
    Cast and crew are now set to kick off filming on September 23.

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      Tom Hanks Returns to Australia for Movie Filming After Recovering From Covid-19

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      The ‘Cast Away’ actor is back to work Down Under to join his co-workers as they resume the filming of the Elvis Presley biopic directed by Baz Luhrmann.
      Sep 9, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Tom Hanks has returned to Australia to resume filming his new Elvis Presley biopic after he tested positive for COVID-19 Down Under in March (20).
      The Oscar winner and his wife, Rita Wilson, were among the first celebrities to fall ill and announce a coronavirus diagnosis, while preparing for his role as Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker in director Baz Luhrmann’s film.
      The couple quarantined in Queensland before it was deemed safe enough for them to return to the U.S. and now Hanks is back.
      He was spotted arriving at Coolangatta Airport, where he met with health officials, on Tuesday (08Sep20).
      Filming on the Elvis biopic, starring Austin Butler as The King, Rufus Sewell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Olivia DeJonge, is set to resume later this month.

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      Tom Hanks Hopes to Get Back Filming Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley Biopic in October

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      The untitled project was in pre-production back in March when its Queensland shooting was shut down after the actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, both tested positive for the coronavirus.
      Jul 6, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Tom Hanks is expecting to head back to work in Australia in October to resume production on his Elvis Presley biopic.
      The currently-untitled project, in which Hanks will play Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker, had been in pre-production back in March, when the Queensland shoot was shut down after the actor and his wife, Rita Wilson, both tested positive for the coronavirus.
      They were briefly hospitalised and quarantined while they recovered, before returning to their home base of Los Angeles, where they have been donating plasma to help medical researchers find a cure.
      Last month, the film’s director, Baz Luhrmann, was revealed to be in advanced discussions with Australian government officials about a restart date following the nation’s lockdown measures to curb the spread of COVID-19, and now Hanks has revealed they are aiming to resume filming in three months, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
      “There is certainly a plan and a desire from the studio’s perspective and from everybody else involved in the movie to figure out a way to make it happen,” Hanks explained in a video call.
      “There are dates on the calendar that say maybe we will be making this movie in October, but all of that stuff is a ‘maybe’ as questions about quarantine and temperatures and sterilising soundstages and all of that go on.”
      However, it’s not clear if Hanks will be on set when cameras are allowed to start rolling again, as the country’s borders are likely to remain closed to travellers from overseas for “quite some distance off”, according to Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham.
      The Luhrmann film will also feature Austin Butler as Elvis.
      Hanks’ remarks emerge as New Zealand’s Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment officials granted travel ban exemptions to cast and crewmembers working on the upcoming TV adaptation of “The Lord of the Rings”, and Robert Downey Jr.’s “Sweet Tooth” comic book series, as well as Netflix’s “Cowboy Bebop” project with John Cho.
      Permits had already been issued to those working on James Cameron’s “Avatar” sequels, and Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog”, set to star Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, and Jesse Plemons, which had been in production prior to the coronavirus pandemic.

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      Baz Luhrmann Recalls Being Days Away From Filming Elvis Presley Biopic When Tom Hanks Got COVID-19

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      Detailing on what he had done after his leading man tested positive, the Hollywood filmmaker claims to have scrutinized video he had taken to identify ‘who exactly had touched’ or was near the actor.
      Apr 28, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Director Baz Luhrmann was just four days away from shooting the first scene for his new “Untitled Elvis Presley Biopic” when Tom Hanks fell ill with the coronavirus and the set was shut down.
      The filmmaker tells Deadline he was rehearsing a scene, in which hundreds of girls kiss Elvis Presley, played by Austin Butler, when he learned Hanks was sick.
      “The interesting thing is, we’d had a very quiet incident a month earlier, where everyone was staying,” Baz recalls. “There was a family that had it (COVID-19 virus). That connected us very closely with Dr. Wattiaux, a Gold Coast public health physician in Queensland, and the premier (Annastacia Palasczuk). I’ve worked very closely with her, and she’s great and she’s the equivalent of the governor of Queensland.
      “So I’m getting ready to begin shooting on a Monday, and it’s a scene where basically hundreds of girls are kissing Elvis… Tom (Hanks) guides him through the crowd… We were rehearsing camera positioning, everything, and I’d done all the tests, Austin, Tom, and the whole cast was on fire. We were that close… The world knows what happened next.
      “Tom and (wife) Rita (Wilson) handled it all so well, and we were so fortunate we had this direct connection with the head of infectious diseases, because it was an immediate shutdown… They were right on it.
      “If there was anything good about it, the very best thing that came out of it was when someone like Tom Hanks got it, I noticed that globally and particularly in America… suddenly everyone went, ‘This is real!’ He became an advertisement for it.”
      Luhrmann recalls scrutinising video he had taken, so he could identify “who exactly had touched Tom”, or “who had been near him for X amount of time”.
      “Everybody who was in the footage – and that included Austin and myself – we were 100 per cent quarantined for 14 days, no contact with anybody,” Baz adds. “I was in my house and we were locked down entirely. A team turned up in hazmat suits and we were tested. We wouldn’t have been immediately infectious, but poor Tom and Rita, they were in the hospital. They (authorities) did really good tracing work by looking at the footage. Some of the players were extras, but they tracked everybody down and they quarantined everyone who had real contact with Tom.
      “We never had one more infection in the entire crew.”

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      Rufus Sewell to Bring Elvis Presley's Father to Life in Baz Luhrmann's Biopic

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      The actor, who recently played Judy Garland’s estranged husband Sid Luft in ‘Judy’, is joining Maggie Gyllenhaal, Austin Butler and Tom Hanks in the cast ensemble.
      Feb 14, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Rufus Sewell will play Elvis Presley’s father in Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic.
      The Brit will join Maggie Gyllenhaal, who was announced as Elvis’ mother, Gladys, earlier this week (begin February 10).
      Austin Butler was previously cast as Elvis, while Tom Hanks is set to play the King’s longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
      The movie will focus on the rock icon’s relationship with the man who steered his career.
      Sewell recently won acclaim for playing Judy Garland’s estranged husband Sid Luft in another biopic, “Judy”.

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