,” director Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic about her father, Elvis Presley. But she appears to have had a considerably different take on Sofia Coppola’s “of two emails purportedly sent by Lisa Marie Presley to Coppola last year in which she blasts the “Priscilla” script as “shockingly vengeful” and “very dark and jaded” while urging the Oscar-winning filmmaker to abandon the project.
“My father only comes across as a predator and manipulative,” she wrote. “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.
After noting that she feared her mother “doesn’t understand the intentions behind this film or the outcome it will have,” Lisa Marie Presley alluded to Coppola’s own family, which includes five-time Academy Award-winning director“I would think of all people that you would understand how this would feel,” she wrote. She also pledged to “go against you, my mother and this film publicly” by the time “Priscilla” hit the big screen, even though production had not yet begun at the time.at age 54.