Elvis Presley to develop into Agent King in new Netflix animated collection
Practically 50 years in the past, Elvis Presley infamously met with Richard Nixon within the Oval Workplace to ask the President to make him an undercover operative for the Bureau of Narcotics and Harmful Medicine. 5 many years later, he’ll lastly develop into the spy he all the time dreamed of being within the new Netflix animated collection Agent King.
Introduced on the 42nd anniversary of Elvis’ loss of life, the “grownup animated motion comedy collection” comes from Sony Photos Animation. A press launch describes Agent King as seeing Elvis buying and selling “in his white jumpsuit for a jet pack when he’s covertly inducted right into a secret authorities spy program to assist battle the darkish forces that threaten the nation he loves — all whereas holding down his day job because the King of Rock and Roll.”
(Once more, this was introduced on the anniversary of the legendary performer’s loss of life…)
Elvis’ ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, co-created Agent King alongside John Eddie, with each serving as government producers. Mike Arnold of Archer fame will function showrunner, author, and government producer. Elvis’ longtime good friend and member of his Memphis Mafia entourage Jerry Schilling is consulting on the challenge. What’s extra, designer John Varvatos might be behind all of the costume designs for Elvis’ spy wardrobe.
Stated Priscilla of the cartoon,
“From the time Elvis was a younger boy he all the time dreamed of being the superhero preventing crime and saving the world! Agent King lets him do exactly that. My co-creator John Eddie and I are so excited to be working with Netflix and Sony Animation on this superb challenge and getting the prospect to point out the world an Elvis they haven’t seen earlier than.”
There’s no phrase but on what number of episodes the primary season of Agent King will obtain or when it’ll premiere. We’ll see if it’s across the similar time as Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis biopic, which stars Austin Butler because the King and Tom Hanks as his supervisor, Col. Tom Parker.
