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UPDATE Michael Shannon “Elvis and Nixon” Gets a Director and Maybe a Co-Star

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Exclusive I told you last week about Michael Shannon playing Elvis Presley in “Elvis and Nixon.” Shannon can do anything, he’ll be a great Elvis circa 1971. Now I’m told that the movie has a director– Liza Johnson. Her Kristen Wiig movie, “Hateship Loveship” just got a distributor– IFC Films– out of Toronto. Guy Pearce and Hallie Steinfeld co-star.

Johnson’s “Return” with Linda Cardellini was one of the hidden gems of 2011, produced by Meredith Vieira. Now she’ll take on the historic meeting between Elvis and the only president who had to resign in disgrace. I am told that another great actor, Danny Huston, may be up for the Nixon role. The project, produced by Holly Wiersma and Logan Levy, sounds ever more intriguing and promising…

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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