Tomorrow I am headed to a preview showing of ELVIS! Super excited! It has me thinking of all the movies about Elvis that graced the screen.

I remember watching Elvis (1979) starring Kurt Russell on TV probably a year or two after it came out. I was young. It made very little impact on my life.

Later there was a movie with Don Johnson as Elvis. I never saw it. It just doesn’t feel right.

Late 80’s, there was a made for tv movie based on Priscilla’s autobiography, Elvis and Me. Dale Midkiff played Elvis. He looked more like Kurt Russell than Elvis. The movie was awesome, regardless.

In the early 90s, there was a tv show about the early life of Elvis. Michael St. Gerard played Elvis. It was a wonderful series. I remember being very disappointed when it was canceled.

There was a movie about Elvis and Colonel Tom Parker called, Elvis and the Colonel: The Untold Story. I couldn’t get through it. I recall recording it on VHS and eventually, I taped over it.

There was a movie called Elvis Meets Nixon… but I said no to that one.

Then there was Jonathan Rhys-Meyers in a tv miniseries called Elvis. He had the look. Although he was absolutely microscopic next to Randy Quaid as Colonel Tom Parker. I recall very little of this movie other than Rose McGowan doing a fun Ann-Margret impression.

There were movies reimagining Elvis like Heartbreak Hotel with David Keith, True Romance with Val Kilmer, Finding Graceland with Harvey Keitel, and Bubba Ho-Tep with Bruce Campbell. There were movies where Elvis made brief appearances like Forrest Gump, Walk the Line, and others. There were movies where Elvis wasn’t in it exactly but his spirit was all over it like Elvis Has Left the Building with Kim Basinger (I feel like there are more movies that meet this definition butmovies  my recall is terrible). Wait, 3000 Miles to Graceland, Honeymoon in Vegas, Lilo and Stitch, Boss Baby, Mystery Train, etc…

I remember meeting an Elvis Tribute Artist in Memphis at Elvis Week 2008 and he told me he starred in a movie as Elvis. After some search, I found it. I am pretty sure it was a porno. I stopped it quickly once it became apparent what was going to happen. I cannot for the life of me remember the movie or the Elvis Stylist’s name.

There was also a movie called The Identical with Ryan Pelton. For some reason, he used the name Blake Rayne in the credits. The movie is a take on the Elvis story but suggests that Elvis’s twin brother didn’t die but was given to a family that wanted a child. Whatever.

Yeah. So there we have it. Movies that I remember about Elvis.