Eric Bana no longer attached to film Elvis & Nixon

Eric Bana says he is no longer involved with making the film Elvis & Nixon. Picture: Craig Barritt/Getty Images for Heineken/AFP Source: AFP

The Herald Sun reports

Eric Bana has confirmed he won't be whipping out his blue suede shoes to play Elvis in a coming bio-pic.

The Aussie heart-throb lined up last October to play the rock and roll king in movie Elvis & Nixon.

But Bana told The Hollywood Reporter he was no longer involved.

"I'm not doing that. I was attached for a while, but I'm no longer attached," he said at the Tribeca Film Festival screening of his latest movie Deadfall.

The story focuses on a meeting between Elvis and US President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1970.