Australian actor Eric Bana will star as Elvis Presley in a film about the King's unlikely meeting with former US president Richard Nixon.
The film, creatively titled Elvis and Nixon, will tell the true story of how in 1970, Presley wrote Nixon a six-page letter suggesting he be made a "federal agent-at-large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. The singer then visited the White House on Nixon's invitation, bringing family photos and a pistol as a personal gift for the president.
According to Variety the film will be written and directed by actor Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride), who became fascinated with how the meeting between the two historical greats came about.
Nixon will be played by Danny Huston.
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