Lisa Marie Presley Begged to Have ‘Priscilla’ Movie About Elvis Halted

Lisa Marie Presley was virtually begging Sofia Coppola to not put her new film about her mother and pop not lengthy earlier than she instantly died — slamming the flick as a success piece.

The late daughter of Elvis Presley fired off 2 emails to the director 4 months previous to January — when she suffered cardiac arrest and passed away — by which she pled together with her to cease down on her characteristic and rethink placing it out … which she did not, in fact.

Based on Variety, which obtained the correspondence, LMP known as Coppola’s script “shockingly vengeful and contemptuous” … and went on to slam the way in which Elvis is portrayed.

She writes, “My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative. As his daughter, I don’t read this and see any of my father in this character. I don’t read this and see my mother’s perspective of my father. I read this and see your shockingly vengeful and contemptuous perspective and I don’t understand why?”

Lisa added, “I will be forced to be in a position where I will have to openly say how I feel about the film and go against you, my mother and this film publicly.”

In response, Coppola answered … “I hope that when you see the final film you will feel differently, and understand I’m taking great care in honoring your mother, while also presenting your father with sensitivity and complexity.”

It feels like Coppola really toned her film down in comparison with the supply materials it is primarily based on — Priscilla Presley‘s ‘Elvis and Me’ — which apparently contained much more scandalous tales about Elvis courting the very younger PP on the time … one thing that has come below numerous scrutiny within the years following his personal well-known dying.

As we reported … Lisa’s cry for the movie to be shut down echoes what Elvis’ personal property stated concerning the movie because it was being labored on — which, on the time, called it a travesty. Priscilla herself, nonetheless, was very a lot on board from day one … chatting with the fracture right here.