Shooting of the Elvis movie with Tom Hanks is completely stopped

Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Presley movie has been postponed indefinitely. The recordings had already been stopped due to the coronavirus and the fact that protagonist Tom Hanks (63) is infected. But now the set is being dismantled and the project will disappear for the time being.

“Now is not the time to make the movie”

That reports The Hollywood Reporter. “This is not the time to start making the film,” said Luhrmann, who previously made Moulin Rouge, among others. “We will continue with the film, but only when the time is right and when it is safe.”

Hanks and his wife were known to be the first major American stars to be infected with the virus. They have left the hospital but are still quarantined in a house in Australia.