of two emails purportedly sent by Lisa Marie Presley to the direcor 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.
“I had to explain that we are going to have to endure another hit in our lives,” she wrote. “That there is going to be a movie about her grandfather that is going to try to make him look really, really bad but it’s not true. I had to explain that her beloved grandmother is supporting it. 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 Sofia’s own family, which includes five-time Academy Award-winning directorShe 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.