Lisa Marie Presley has complained to Sofia Coppola, the director of the movie ‘Priscilla’ that the film’s script made her father Elvis out to be ‘a predator and manipulative’.
According to Hollywood outlet Variety, Lisa Marie wrote to the filmmaker to raise concerns four months before her death in January. The film tells the story of her mother Priscilla, who met Elvis at 14. Priscilla has supported the movie.
He is depicted with ‘sensitivity and complexity’, Coppola told Lisa Marie. The film, titled Priscilla, is based on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. In one email, Lisa Marie reportedly wrote: “My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative.
“As his daughter, I don’t read this and see any of my father in this character. I don’t read this and see my mother’s perspective of my father. I read this and see your shockingly vengeful and contemptuous perspective and I don’t understand why?”
Priscilla is credited as an executive producer on the film, but Lisa Marie threatened to speak out publicly against it and her mother’s support for it.
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Priscilla is a 2023 American biographical drama film written, directed, and produced by Sofia Coppola, based on the 1985 memoir Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley (who serves as an executive producer) and Sandra Harmon.
It follows the life of Presley, played by Cailee Spaeny and her relationship with Elvis Presley played by Jacob Elordi. Priscilla premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2023. It was released in the United States by A24 in limited theaters on October 27, 2023, before expanding wide on November 3.
