BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM Your best source for the latest horror news, reviews, interviews, and more... Ron Perlman to Play Elvis in 'Bubba Nosferatu'? http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/14137 Print This Page Our boy Quint over at AICN just dropped me an e-mail that filled me with delight, an early Halloween treat if you will. Inside you'll find out who is filling in for Bruce Campbell in Don Coscarelli's long-delayed Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires, the sequel to MGM's BUBBA HO-TEP from way back in 2002 (man, time flies). Inside you'll find a portion of an interview with Paul Giamatti, who has already been cast as Col. Parker. Giamatti spills who is in the role now to Aint it Cool News, along with a little bit about the sequel, which includes (but is not limited to) Col. Parker as a vampire (both literally and figuratively speaking) and a peyote trip sequence. While talking about director Don Coscarelli, he spills the beans on who could be replacing Bruce Campbell as Elvis. "His [Coscarelli's] movies are amazing. They are totally unique, you know? So then he asked me if I was interested in doing this one and I was just like “You have got to be kidding me. Yeah, absolutely!” I said, “I have a little production company and we can help you guys do this” and he brought me in onboard and now we have got Ron Perlman interested in playing Elvis." You might know Perlman as the big bad red machine HELLBOY. So what happened to Bruce Campbell? Giamatti has the story... "Every effort was made by us, he just didn’t want to do it and he was cool about it. He just didn’t want to do it, which is a bummer, because part of the reason I love that movie is him… a big part of it. He’s fantastic and I’ve always loved him. I’m a big fan of his, but he didn’t want to do it, which is totally cool." Something that has been top secret until now is the plot, which is finally being talked about. "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... "...Col. Parker is a completely bizarre, shadowy weird figure. He’s like something out of a horror movie or something. Nobody really knows much about him and I didn’t even know that he was Dutch! He’s not American! He’s this sort of quintessential American huckster character and he’s not American! He’s Dutch! He escaped the Nazis and it’s just completely bizarre. So it has this larger than life, grotesque weird lovely thing going on anyway and that Elvis was obsessed with astrology and the occult and all of this stuff. " Click here for the full interview, which had loads of info to file through. Source: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38925