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Elvis to turn secret agent in kids’ animated TV series
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 19 August 2019
How do you ensure that an artist’s music will live on long after their death? Holograms, right? But one day the audience for that gimmick will inevitably dry up. So we need to take cues from cigarette companies and get kids hooked young. Which is presumably why Elvis is coming for your children’s squishy brains, starring as a spy in new animated telly series ‘Agent King’.
Created by Elvis’s wife Priscilla Presley and singer-songwriter John Eddie, the show is set to air on Netflix at an as yet undisclosed date – the announcement of the project being timed to coincide with the 42nd anniversary of the musician’s death. The show sees Elvis drafted into a secret government spy programme, so that he is saving the world (or America, at least) while concurrently being the world’s greatest rock n roll star.
“From the time Elvis was a young boy he always dreamed of being the superhero fighting crime and saving the world”, says Priscilla Presley. “‘Agent King’ lets him do just that”.
She continues: “My co-creator John Eddie and I are so excited to be working with Netflix and Sony Animation on this amazing project and getting the chance to show the world an Elvis they haven’t seen before”.
The announcement comes three years after Netflix first unveiled plans to launch ‘Beat Bugs’ – an animated series aimed at five to seven year olds that uses Beatles songs to teach important life lessons about coming together, only needing love and being in the sky with diamonds.
In ‘Beat Bugs’, the classic tunes are all given a modern pop twist, with vocal performances from artists such as Sia and Pink. It’s not clear how Elvis songs will be tweaked to appeal to 21st century children’s ears, but ‘Beat Bugs’ is about start its fourth series, which suggests the idea isn’t totally stupid.
