Sounds great doesn't it? Well it could happen! Paul Giamatti is in talks to play Colonel Parker to Bruce Campbell's Elvis in the prequel to the cult favorite "Bubba Ho-Tep." The original had Bruce Campbell's Elvis teaming up with Ossie Davis's John Kennedy to fight mummies in a retirement home. Yeah. It was pretty cool. Netflix it.
This one purports to have a younger Elvis teaming up with this manager Colonel Parker to take on vampires on a film shoot.
Oddly, it is Bruce Campbell who is the holdout. He is not sure if he wants to reprise his role as Elvis. Paul has this to say on the matter:
“Bruce Campbell was waffling around about whether he wants to play Elvis or not again. So that’s the problem,” said Giamatti. “You gotta have Elvis and you really want him playing Elvis, so hopefully we can get him to do it. If not, I’m sure they will try and find somebody else but I think it’s contingent on whether he’ll do it or not. It’s a great script, a completely insane script. I would love to do that because I love [Bubba Ho-Tep]. It’s a great movie.”
Let's hope Bruce decides to become a hunka hunka burnin' love once again and kick some major vampire ass!
Here is a trailer for the original film:
Paul recently appeared on Conan to talk about violent new film "Shoot em up." It just occurred to me that Max Weinberg and his infamous seven pick songs to play based on whatever it is the guest is promoting. Check out what they are playing as Paul takes a seat. Paul discusses going to the Oscars dressed as his villainous character from the movie and even compliments Conan on his famous frontal hair swoosh.
SPOILER ALERT: Paul also reveals his fate in the movie. So watch with caution. Why you wanna play us like that Paul? I was going to hit this theater but now I'll just Netflix. I'm just kidding. I already watched it.