Published : Feb. 2, 2012 - 18:02
MEMPHIS, Tennessee (AP) ― Over the years, Lisa Marie Presley has become dissatisfied with movies chronicling her father’s life, so she just might make her own film about the rock ‘n’ roll icon.
The daughter of Elvis Presley said she has been in talks about a movie, though she didn’t offer a timetable.
“There’s not been anything done properly with him yet, you know, that has satisfied me in terms of capturing everything,’’ she told The Associated Press. “It will happen, though.’’
Presley, who rarely gives interviews, was at Graceland this week to attend the opening of a new exhibit. “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes’’ is a personal look at Lisa Marie and includes her baby shoes, her first record player and a small white fur coat ― touchstones from her days living at Graceland, her father’s longtime Memphis home until his death Aug. 16, 1977.
This year marks the 35th anniversary of Elvis’ death, which is observed each August with a weeklong gathering of fans in Memphis. Officials anticipate as many as 75,000 people, the number that showed up in 2007 for the 30th anniversary.
Lisa Marie Presley describes a case containing artifacts from her childhood including a faux-fur coat and toy record player inside the latest exhibit “Elvis ... Through His Daughter’s Eyes” Wednesday at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee. (AP-Yonhap News)
Presley lived at Graceland until she was 5, when her mother Priscilla divorced Elvis and moved with Lisa Marie to California. She continued to visit Graceland, and she smiles when talking about the time spent with her dad, such as when they would ride a golf cart through the neighborhood together. She recalled waiting for her father to make his daily entrance down the stairs.
“He was always fully, fully geared up. You’d never see him in his pajamas coming down the steps, ever,’’ she said. “You’d never see him in anything but ‘ready to be seen’ attire.’’
Elvis, a renowned car and motorcycle aficionado, also was known to leave the grounds and hang out with locals in the neighborhood.
“Sometimes he would go and there would be a convoy and everybody would follow,’’ she said. “He’d be going down Elvis Presley Boulevard and you would see these devices riding down the road, of all sorts.’’
Lisa Marie has spent much of the past few years taking care of her 3-year-old twin daughters she had with husband Michael Lockwood. She has two children from a previous marriage to musician Danny Keough, which ended in 1994. She also was married to actor Nicholas Cage and pop star Michael Jackson.
Presley did not want to talk at length about Jackson. The exhibit displays a photo of her and Jackson visiting a children’s hospital in Budapest, Hungary.
“It was just one of the moments that was captured ... we were helping this child get a liver transplant,’’ she said.
When asked what comes to mind when she thinks of Jackson, she said: “I can only say that I have good memories.’’
Lisa Marie has found time to make a new record, her third. Set for release in May, the album is being produced by Grammy-winner T-Bone Burnett.