"The Last King of Scotland" director Kevin MacDonald has signed up to direct the Elvis Presley biopic "Last Train to Memphis", according to Variety magazine. The film follows Presley's early years and is based on the best-selling 1995 Peter Guralnick biography.

The film is being produced by Mick Jagger and Victoria Pearman at Jagged Films.

Film company 20th Century Fox have launched an open casting call for a young actor to play Elvis.

At the "Young Elvis Casting” website, actors aged between 18 and 22 can submit audition tapes.

The site describes the film as the story of Presley's "against-all-odds success due to his uncanny gift for self-invention, his unstoppable drive, and the new sound he created that changed the music world forever."

MacDonald had also directed the 2012 documentary “Marley" about the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.