10 Music Film Biopics Not Yet Made
#1 - Elvis Presley - Viva Las Vegas
I find it astonishing that the man who if Michael Jackson was the King of Pop must have been the God of Pop has yet to be the subject of a biopic.
Amazingly though, Elvis Aaron Presley has yet to be portrayed on the big screen, well at least in a story of his life sense. There have been plenty of apparition, vision, impersonator, fake, fraud and charlatan Elvises (or should that be Elvi?) on the big screen some good (True Romance), some bad (3000 Miles to Graceland) and some out and out weird (Bubba Ho-Tep) the man himself even turned his hand to acting on numerous occasions, but we are still waiting for that definitive Elvis biopic.
Elvis practically invented pop music and the scores of tributes and impersonators that still attract a crowd show that the big mans influence and reach shows no signs of dying out just yet.
Done right, an Elvis biopic could quite simply be the biggest movie of all time think Ray and Walk the Line but multiplied by about a thousand. Obviously to cover the mans life in full would take a Sergio Leone director's cut length movie, leaving the only real viable options as some sort of multiple movie deal a la Che, or to focus on one particular period.
Everyone knows the Elvis at the height of his success, but what about his more mysterious latter days or his journey from small town Mississippi to billion album selling megastar.
John Lennon once said Before Elvis, there was nothing and one thing is for sure: love him or hate him, it cant be denied that Elvis Presley is the most talked about and influential artist of the past fifty years (run closely by that Jackson fella).
There have been countless attempts at Elvis TV movies, yet we are still to see a major motion picture maybe the subject matter is seen as too challenging for many studios there would inevitably be a backlash even if the finished reel was frame perfect. Hopefully though, the long rumoured big screen Elvis epic will eventually see the light of day and it will be a fitting tribute to the man that many just call The King.
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