The trailers for Elvis (2022) could've been way better.

Elvis (2022) is one of my favorite movies, but I've always found that it was served pretty poorly by its original trailer. Music biopics have a reputation for being formulaic, and if one were going purely by the trailer, I couldn't really blame someone if they thought that the Elvis movie looked indistinguishable from a thousand other music biopics. I felt that the snippets of dialogue that were used, while admittedly in the film for the most part, made the movie look a lot more bland and perfunctory than it was ("I need to get back to who I really am," "I just gotta be makin' the most of this thing while I can"), and it looked like a movie that made people's love of Elvis's music do all of the heavy lifting. Now admittedly, I imagine it's probably a difficult thing to make the trailer for a music biopic unique, since there's almost always going to be a sense of formula present. But in this case, I think I have a concept for a trailer that would've served the movie better and might've gotten people who are more cynical towards biopics on board. What I would've done is have the trailer feature almost no Elvis songs, and instead set the whole thing to the 2001: A Space Odyssey theme, which was Elvis's entrance music in the 70's. Even if you don't already know this (I didn't the first time I saw the movie), Elvis is such a staple of American culture that a film about him can inherently carry an epic gravitas worthy of such an iconic theme. You could have a line or two of dialogue from the film, and you could even throw in a brief excerpt of "Hound Dog" at the very end as a stinger once the 2001 theme has concluded, but if you were trying to make this movie stand out from other music biopics while also getting across Baz Luhrmann's extravagant tendencies, I think this would be a good way to go about it.