Friday
31Oct2008
Ron Perlman Replacing Bruce Campbell's Elvis in 'Bubba Nosferatu'?'
Friday, October 31, 2008 at 9:28AM
There is a pretty exciting development from the world of
Bubba Ho-Tep, and it's coming from an unlikely source.
So it's the King of Rock n' Roll (Bruce Campbell) and the King of America's Camelot (Ossie Davis) in a retirement home...fighting an Egyptian mummy. That should do the trick, I think.
Now back to the present: Giamatti will play Col. Tom Parker in the next film, because he loved the first one so much. He's even co-producing for director Don Coscarelli, and Giamatti says that, although Campbell won't be back, they're looking at Ron Perlman to take his place.
Why won't Campbell be back? "Every effort was made by us, he just didn't want to do it and he was cool about it," admits Giamatti. "He just didn't want to do it, which is a bummer, because part of the reason I love that movie is him... a big part of it. He's fantastic and I've always loved him. I'm a big fan of his, but he didn't want to do it, which is totally cool." And this next bit is just too cool to leave out:
"So yeah I'll be playing Col. Parker, who... You know part of the great thing about this is not only are these wonderful genre movies, but he's actually taking a weird, interesting take on the whole Elvis myth and kind of investigating the whole Elvis myth in a really interesting way, so it's got a lot of stuff about Col. Parker being responsible for a lot of what happened to Elvis and kind of literally making him a vampire in some ways, you know? A kind of a blood sucker... It plays on a lot of things, this movie, in a great way and it's got Sitting Bull in it and there's a peyote trip in it that is amazing and it's just a big leap beyond the other movie. It's ten times more insane and bizarre and it's great and hilarious, too. It's funnier than the other one is even. It still ends up being this great character study of this Elvis guy."Elvis as a vampire? Sitting Bull? That's about as cool as anything I think I've ever heard.
Reader Comments (6)
Explaining what Paul Giamatti has to do with any of it might've been an idea...
Yeah, skip that comment - my feed-reader's on the blink again. *Rolls eyes and whacks the PC with something undead.*
I think he means that Col. Parker will be portrayed as a vampire doesn't he?
Maybe. I read it the other way, that Col. Parker shaped Elvis into being a vampire. Either way, it's cool.
But who will play JFK now that Ossie's gone?
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