Elvis' estate allegedly declined to give the filmmaker permission to use his songs.
, Coppola’s husband, Thomas Mars, who is the lead singer of Phoenix, supplied a lot of the music, including a cover of Frankie Avalon’s song “Venus,” which plays at the pivotal moment of Priscilla and Elvis’ first-ever encounter and later becomes the film’s theme song.
“I just got who [Coppola] was and I felt that she could get me,” Priscilla said of Coppola, who also grew up around industry royalty, and why the director was the best choice to tell her story. “I thought, we have different stories, but she could understand this better than any writer because [Coppola] kind of lived it in her own way.”doesn’t have a release date, but is set to arrive “soon” via A24.
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