Morning Grind: Eric Bana May Have Elvis in New Movie

Place your chosen Elvis song lyric here. (Sample: "All shook up!") Variety reviews that Eric Bana may have The King inside the new indie film 'Elvis & Nixon,' in regards to the 1970 meeting between Presley and Leader Richard Nixon. Danny Huston is at predicts play in the leader for author/director Cary Elwes, who's making his behind-the-camera debut. The Elvis/Nixon summit -- which is famous picture taking proof -- remains a cultural oddity to this day the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum still can get more demands for your pic than almost every other Nixon still. The pair met in 1970 within the behest of Presley, who preferred to provide his services for the Fbi. This is actually the second project to directly tackle the meeting: a 1997 film referred to as 'Elvis Meets Nixon' detailed the identical story. [Variety] 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game Title Title of Shadows' hasn't even emerge yet, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't get excited for an additional follow-up. Deadline reviews Warner Bros. has hired Came Pearce to script the next installment in the franchise. Pearce might be the present blockbuster-film author flavor in the month: furthermore to doing a little of touch-ups round the Guillermo del Toro-directed 'Pacific Rim,' he's also scripting 'Iron Guy 3.' [Deadline] Within the rumor mill: Twitch reviews that Gary Oldman and Helena Bonham Carter are actually offered roles inside the Warner Bros. reboot of 'Akira.' Oldman would play Colonel, with Carter handling Lady Miyako. It appears Garret Hedlund continues to be leader for Kaneda. Unsure yet on when the character names can alter to match the locale switch from Neo Tokyo, japan, japan to New Manhattan. [Twitch] When movies go TV: 'Game of Thrones' star Package Harington and 'The Killing' star Joel Kinnaman will be the top choices to guide 'Arthur and Lancelot' for Warner Bros. It's unclear which actor may have which role. [THR/Warmth Vision] Academy Award-winning composer Hendes Zimmer will not enter in the Oscar race this year. Zimmer -- who written the scores for 'Rango,' 'Kung Fu Panda 2,' 'Pirates in the Caribbean: On Stranger Tide' as well as the approaching 'Sherlock Holmes follow-up, they received an Oscar nomination for following a first film -- mentioned he really wants to begin to see the process this year. "As soon as you obtain nominated, which i do not care what you're - you will discover certainly people of better character than me - everything goes crazy," he mentioned to THR. "You obtain the phone call at five o'clock and after you have to perform the interviews after which it perform the parties and meet every one of these people and do every one of these things. It's difficult, but it may be more interesting to determine it for just about any year. It'll worry me that people must stay relevant. Occasions are changing, very rapidly. Usually a few things i do when the situation is changing rapidly is stand still and observe." Zimmer is presently concentrating on his score for 'The Dark Dark evening Increases.' [THR] What's happening with 'The Dark Tower'? A good deal, according to producer John Grazer. "We found a means to eliminate $45 million in the budget without changing the scope and extremely creating an excellent ending," Grazer mentioned to indieWIRE. "Inside the $140 million draft, the ending wasn't as satisfying. Now, we've got $45 million, $50 million taken proper care of together with a very satisfying ending. It's gonna get made." The variation of Stephen King's epic hit many an economic snag taken just before being came by Universal. Ron Howard would still most most likely direct when the ever can get started, though whether star Javier Bardem would still appear -- and when the storyline might be told over three films and a pair of television series, as initially planned -- remains to look. [indieWIRE/The Playlist] [Photo: Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook RELATED