Director/co-writer Baz Luhrmann's co-writers are Sam Bromell, Craig Pearce, and Jeremy Doner. Apparently there's a four hour cut somewhere. We'd like a two hour cut, please.
You will not remember the original score by Elliott Wheeler nor find it online, but the soundtrack on Apple Music and elsewhere includes Presley classics, covers by Butler, and other songs.
Contributing to the glorious images are cinematographer Mandy Walker, production designers Catherine Martin and Karen Murphy, and Martin doing double duty as costume designer.
This movie is said to be the second highest grossing music biopic after Bohemian Rhapsody, and in both films, the stars' drug use was barely mentioned. But, I suppose, delving into that would have made them both even longer.
I've mentioned but a few of the many trivia items on imdb and here's another: Presley dyed his naturally light hair black and so did Butler for this role.
Hanks was last blogged for News of the World; Luhrmann, Pearce, and Martin for The Great Gatsby; Doner for Heartbreaker; and Walker for Tracks. Butler has a number of credits, including playing a member of the Manson family in Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood. This is the feature debut for Bromell. Wheeler scored the hip-hop series The Get Down, and Murphy, who was an associate production designer on Gatsby, designed The Get Down, A Star Is Born, Queen & Slim, and more.
Some of Rotten Tomatoes's critics, averaging 77%, have left the building but its audiences, thank you very much, are at 94%.
We streamed it September 6 on HBO Max and I see that it is airing this week on regular HBO as well.
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