A Nixon & Elvis Movie: Need I Say More?

It's fitting to have such strange casting given the subject matter.

The meeting of Elvis Presley and President Richard Nixon remains one of the strangest pairing of figures in pop culture. Not the first time we've seen the event recreated but Cary Elwes (Yes, the same actor from The Princess Bride and Saw) is stepping behind the camera for his directorial debut on the event for the adequately titled Elvis & Nixon.

Variety reports Danny Huston will fill out one half of the duo as Nixon. Not the "strange casting" I alluded to earlier. Quite the opposite, Huston looks more like our thirty-seventh President than Anthony Hopkins or Frank Langella. No, I'm referring to who will grow the side-burns, puff up his cheeks and sport that jumpsuit: Eric Bana. One of those brilliant out there choices that makes you go, "Of course!" once it settles in. Couldn't you imagine Bana (so good at disappearing into roles) walking around with that Elvis swagger?

If anything the hiring of Bana and Huston has ensured Elwes already sold one ticket in advance even before cameras roll: mine.