Ooh! Biting the hand! Or… spiting the fans??
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Sofia Coppola is opening up about two movies that she turned down.
The famed 52-year-old director has worked on projects such as Marie Antoinette, Lost in Translation and, most recently, Priscilla, which stars Jacob Elordi and Cailee Spaeny as Elvis and Priscilla Presley.
While she’s got some big projects to her name, Sofia opted out of directing a Little Mermaid movie. She also passed on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2. She explained why in a recent interview.
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Speaking to Rolling Stone, Sofia explained that she hit a “breaking point” with the Little Mermaid movie, which should not be confused with Disney’s new live-action The Little Mermaid, which starred Halle Bailey.
“I was in a boardroom and some development guy said, ‘What’s gonna get the 35-year-old man in the audience?’ And I just didn’t know what to say,” she recalled. “I just was not in my element. I feel like I was naive, and then I felt a lot like the character in the story, trying to do something out of my element, and it was a funny parallel of the story for me.”
She added that she sometimes runs into these problems when working on projects funded by straight men. “So it’s not the same point of view, but you’re trying to explain, like, ‘People, not everyone’s gonna be into what you’re into,’ but I just wanted to make things that appeal to me and express that,” she said.
What about the final Twilight movie?
“We had one meeting, and it never went anywhere. I thought the whole imprinting-werewolf thing was weird. The baby. Too weird,” Sofia opined. “But part of the earlier Twilight could be done in an interesting way. I thought it’d be fun to do a teen-vampire romance, but the last one gets really far out.”
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Ellise Shafer SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Priscilla,” in theaters now. As the opening sequence of Sofia Coppola‘s biographical drama “Priscilla” unfolds, viewers meet a 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) in 1959 West Germany to the tune of the Ramones’ 1980 hit “Baby, I Love You.” This time-bending choice may seem unexpected, but to those familiar with the work of Coppola — who famously soundtracked her 2006 historical film “Marie Antoinette” with the Strokes, Aphex Twin and the Cure — it won’t come as a surprise. After all, though the song is a subversion, it’s a cover of the Ronettes’ 1964 classic and carries much of the musical stylings of the period, courtesy of Phil Spector, who produced both versions.
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Priscilla.In an interview with E! News, director Coppola said she learned “people really connect Lana Del Rey with Priscilla”. Del Rey previously wrote a song for an Elvis documentary, and takes much of her style inspiration from Priscilla. She even got Presley’s blessing to play her in Baz Luhrmann’s recent Elvis biopic (the role went to Olivia DeJonge instead).Coppola said she “got a lot of requests about how [Del Rey] could be part of the movie”, and had asked the singer to write a song.
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Sofia Coppola‘s “Priscilla” hits theaters today amid a great deal of buzz, partially thanks to star Cailee Spaeny winning the Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her title role. But not everyone was thrilled Coppolla announced plans to adapt Priscilla Presley‘s 1985 “Elvis And Me” for the big screen last year.
Angelique Jackson Priscilla Beaulieu was a 14-year-old Army brat when she met the world’s biggest star, Elvis Presley, sparking a love story that’s the stuff of rock ‘n’ roll legend. When “Priscilla” star Cailee Spaeny was 14, she developed a different kind of crush — a cinematic one — on Sofia Coppola. It all started when she watched “The Virgin Suicides,” Coppola’s 1999 feature directorial debut.
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her death in January, Lisa Marie Presley sent two emails to director Sofia Coppola, asking her to revise the script for Priscilla.In the emails obtained by Variety, the late Presley – the only child of Priscilla and Elvis Presley – expressed her shock and horror over the depiction of her father in the upcoming film.Priscilla is a biopic of Priscilla Presley, based on her 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. Set for release in January, the film has already sparked conversation among critics and fans due to its handling of the former couple’s relationship, which began when Priscilla was 14 and Elvis was 24.In the emails obtained by Variety, Presley asked Coppola to reconsider her depiction of Elvis, claiming it portrayed her father as “a predator and manipulative”.Presley called the script “shockingly vengeful and contemptuous,” and begged the Oscar-winning director to refrain from straining her fragile relationship with her mother, as well as drawing further attention to Elvis’ living grandchildren as they continue to grieve the loss of Lisa Marie Presley’s son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020.“My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative,” Presley wrote in one of the emails, which were both sent in September last year.
the devil in disguise.A mere four months before the singer died of complications resulting from a small bowel obstruction, Presley sent two emails to the director begging her to revise the script for “Priscilla,” according to Variety.The bio-pic, which is based on Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir “Elvis and Me,” focuses on the courtship between the infamous pair which began in Germany in 1959.The issue? Priscilla was 14 and Elvis was 24. “My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative,” Lisa Marie wrote in a September 2022 email.
With Sofia Coppola‘s Priscilla on the verge of its theatrical release, a new report reveals what the late Lisa Marie Presley thought of the film about her mother Priscilla‘s relationship with her father, Elvis Presley.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Before her death earlier this year, Lisa Marie Presley expressed shock and horror over the depiction of her father Elvis Presley in the script for Sofia Coppola’s new film “Priscilla.” Described in two emails obtained exclusively by Variety, the late Presley asked Coppola to reconsider her vision for the character and to spare her family public embarrassment. The messages were sent four months before Presley suffered fatal cardiac arrest in January.
Though Francis Ford Coppola is known best as the filmmaker behind iconic movies such as “The Godfather,” “Apocalypse Now,” and “The Outsiders,” he’s also known as a guy who loves to tinker. In fact, it’s not uncommon to hear that he’s releasing another new cut of one of his films.
Apple TV+ adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel The Custom Of The Country has been axed because it was about an “unlikeable woman”.READ MORE: ‘Priscilla’ review: Elvis’ turbulent marriage laid bare in brilliant biopicAccording to an interview with The New York Times, the director saidthat she was planning to develop the project as a five-hour limited series but the streaming service didn’t like its main character.“The idea of an unlikable woman wasn’t their thing,” Coppola said. “But that’s what I’m saying about who’s in charge.”Earlier in the interview, she also said: “The people in charge of giving money are usually straight men, still.