'Elvis' trailer: First U.S. trailer

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The first U.S. trailer for Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis' biopic, starring Austin Butler.

Video Transcript

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "SUSPICIOUS MINDS"] (SINGING) Oh, let our love survive.

- There are some who'd make me out to be the villain of this here story.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "SUSPICIOUS MINDS"] (SINGING) Let's don't let a good thing die.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Are you born with destiny? Or does it just come knocking at your door?

- (SINGING) Hallelujah by and by.

- He's a young singer from Memphis, Tennessee. Give him a warm hayride welcome. Mr. Elvis Presley.

[MIC FEEDBACK]

- Get a haircut, buttercup.

[LAUGHTER]

- In that moment, I watched that skinny boy transform into a superhero.

- (SINGING) Well--

[MUSIC PLAYING]

He was my destiny. I wish to promote you, Mr. Presley.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "JAILHOUSE ROCK"] (SINGING) The warden threw a party in the county jail.

Are you ready to fly?

- I'm ready. I'm ready to fly.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "MY BABY LEFT ME"] (SINGING) My baby left me.

- Tomorrow all of America will be talking about Elvis Presley.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "MY BABY LEFT ME"]

- Presley, try not to move around so much during the takes.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "MY BABY LEFT ME"] (SINGING) My baby left.

- If I can't move, I can't sing.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL"] (SINGING) I'm leaving town, baby.

- Some people wanted to put me in jail cause the way I was moving.

- They might put me in jail for walking across the street, but you're famous white boy.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL"] (SINGING) Well, all right.

- The way you sing is god-given, so there can't be nothing wrong with it.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL"] (SINGING) Well, that's all right, mama.

- (TV) President Kennedy has been shot.

- (TV) Martin Luther King has been shot to death in Memphis.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROLL"] (SINGING) That's all right for you.

- Tragedy, but it has nothing to do with us.

- It has everything to do with us.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] (SINGING) Oh, my love, my darling, I've hungered for you touch.

A reverend once told me, when things are too dangerous to say, sing.

- Sing.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] (SINGING) Time goes by--

- I'm gonna be 40 soon.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] - (SINGING) --so slowly.

And nobody's going to remember me.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] (SINGING) Time can do so much. Are you?

I need to get back to who I really am.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] (SINGING) --still mine?

- And who are you, Elvis?

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] (SINGING) Oh, my love, my darling--

- I just got to be making the most of this thing while I can.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] (SINGING) --for your touch.

This can all be over in a flash.

[MUSIC - ELVIS PRESLEY, "UNCHAINED MELODY"] (SINGING) Lonely time.

- We are the same, you and I. We are two odd lonely children reaching for eternity.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- The Greatest Show on Earth.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

- Elvis has left the building.