Lindsay Zoladz

He did it so right in That Thing You Do.

Yeah, I think that was the part of Elvis that I actually thought didn't work.

But I think it gets at another tension that, like, in trying to narrativize these stories, you have to have a love story.

You have to have a...

some, like, interpersonal thing.

And I think the problem with the Elvis movie was that it overestimated how much people care about Colonel Tom Parker.

So, like, tripled down on that.

And then I think, you know, that's not necessarily the most...

Interesting emotional arc of his life.

But, you know, trying to find that foil, like you mentioned Amadeus and the kind of unconventional use of, you know, a rather poor salieri.

Yeah.

He's just a pathetic guy.

Yeah, that movie did him dirty.

But having to find that foil, is it a love story?

Is it, you know, me against the label?

But finding that antagonist, that not necessarily a villain, but what's the sort of core, you know, love story?

I was mixed on that, but I was fascinated by, you know, did that come out the same year as Elvis?

Yeah, or soon after.

It was very close to the different choices.

So Austin Butler is Elvis in Elvis.