Olivia DeJonge in ‘The Society’ (Photo credit: Netflix).

Baz Luhrmann has cast Olivia DeJonge, who starred in the Netflix series The Society and M. Night Shyamalan’s horror movie The Visit, as Priscilla Presley in the Elvis Presley biopic which will shoot in Queensland early next year.

Austin Butler will play Presley in the untitled Warner Bros movie which will chart his rise from dirt poor singer to global icon, through the prism of his complex relationship with manager Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).

Elvis met Priscilla in 1959 while he was serving with the Us Army. He was smitten despite their age difference: He was 24, she was 14.

They wed in 1967 and she was the chairwoman of Elvis Presley Enterprises, the company that turned the king of rock n’ roll’s Memphis mansion Graceland into one of the Us’s biggest tourist attractions. Lisa Marie was their only daughter. The couple...