ELVIS & NIXON (In Development)

• ELVIS & NIXON

K5 International has announced that it has takeninternational rights to Benaroya Pictures' upcoming project Elvis & Nixon.The comedy will mark Cary Elwes' directorial debut and stars Eric Bana as ElvisPresley and Danny Huston as Richard Nixon.

                   Eric Bana                             Elvis Presley

The film will tell the story of Elvis Presley visitingPresident Richard M. Nixon at the White House in December of 1970. The meetingwas initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visitand suggesting that he be made a 'Federal Agent-at-Large' in the Bureau ofNarcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Presley brought with him family photos and aColt 45 pistol as a personal gift to the President.

Elwes himself wrote the screenplay with Joey Sagal andHanala Sagal and the plan is begin principal photography shortly in Shreveportand Los Angeles.

Elvis & Nixon is produced by Michael Benaroya ofBenaroya Pictures and Holly Wiersma. Bana's Pick Up Truck Productions isexecutive producing, marking the company's first U.S. production.