A few years ago Bruce “Fear My Chin” Campbell made an odd little movie called Bubba Ho-Tep, in which he played an elderly Elvis fighting the mummy that’s been killing people in his old folks’ home.*
It’s become something of a cult classic, and writer Don Coscarelli is now considering a sequel. Entitled Bubba Nosferatu. With Paul Giammati playing Col. Parker.
Paul Giamatti: I don’t want to give too much of it away! So yeah I’ll be playing Col. Parker, who… You know part of the great thing about this is not only are these wonderful genre movies, but he’s actually taking a weird, interesting take on the whole Elvis myth and kind of investigating the whole Elvis myth in a really interesting way, so it’s got a lot of stuff about Col. Parker being responsible for a lot of what happened to Elvis and kind of literally making him a vampire in some ways, you know? A kind of a blood sucker… It plays on a lot of things, this movie, in a great way and it’s got Sitting Bull in it and there’s a peyote trip in it that is amazing and it’s just a big leap beyond the other movie. It’s ten times more insane and bizarre and it’s great and hilarious, too. It’s funnier than the other one is even. It still ends up being this great character study of this Elvis guy.
Bruce Campbell was approached about reprising his role as Elvis, but he’s apparently not interested. So they’re eyeing Ron Perlman.
Y’know, I couldn’t make this stuff up.
*This plot makes a lot more sense if you’ve had a couple beers.
One response to “This is Weird on So Many Levels”
I was smiling and nodding right along with this until I got to the “eyeing Ron Perlman” part. Perlman is the single strongest piece of evidence that Homo Neanderthalensis did not suffer extinction but, rather, was assimilated into the modern human gene pool.