In the debaucherous new animated action-comedy Agent Elvis, Elvis Presley is a global icon by day and, as Matthew McConaughey recently told Jimmy Fallon, “an ass-kicking vigilante by night.” It’s a throwback–comic book rendering of the King, voiced by McConaughey, replete with a chimpanzee sidekick.
Agent Elvis offers a version of Presley that, according to wife Priscilla Presley, “he always dreamed of being... a superhero, fighting crime and saving the world.” Priscilla, along with musician John Eddie (Jungle Boy) is a series co-creator. Ahead, you can learn more about the adult animation series and the imagined secret action life of Elvis.
Commander (Don Cheadle) and CeCe Ryder (Kaitlin Olson) are members of the US government’s secret crime-fighting program the Central Bureau (TCB). The TCB covertly recruits Elvis to become a special agent, and each episode sees him and his gang (Johnny Knoxville and Tom Kenny) battling dark forces in a revisionist history of the late ’60s and early ’70s. But fear not — he holds onto his day job.
No, but shortly before Christmas 1970, a restless Elvis Presley boarded a red-eye from Los Angeles to Washington, DC, determined to meet with President Richard Nixon. “Sir, I can and will be of any service that I can to help the country out,” Elvis jotted down on an American Airlines notepad from his seat in first class. “I have done an in-depth study of drug abuse and Communist brainwashing techniques, and I am right in the middle of the whole thing, where I can and will do the most good.” Hours later, the King, dressed in crushed purple velvet, and the president, dressed in a sad gray suit, stood side by side in the Oval Office. Elvis, an avid collector of guns and police badges, then gifted Nixon a wood-handled Colt .45 revolver and some silver bullets. In return, the president bestowed Elvis with a badge from the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the title of honorary special agent in the war on drugs.
You can catch Agent Elvis now on Netflix.
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