The south is simply totally different.
IndieWire can solely debut the trailer for three-part Netflix documentary sequence “The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga” from Maclain Method and Chapman Method, the brothers behind the Emmy-winning “Wild Wild Nation” (about an Oregon cult chief) and Netflix’s glorious sports-docuseries “Untold” (watch the Danbury Thrashers episode!). This venture appears extra batshit than even these two.
“The Kings of Tupelo” follows “a small-town feud, an web conspiracy, an Elvis impersonator, black-market physique components, and an assassination try on the President,” per its rollercoaster experience of a longline.
“Welcome to Mississippi the place this jaw-dropping story spirals from native drama to a nationwide scandal,” it continues. “Buckle up for a wild experience. This isn’t fiction — it’s Tupelo.”
Need extra? In fact you do.
“‘The Kings of Tupelo’ is an outrageous Southern fever dream,” the lengthier official synopsis reads. “When an eccentric Elvis impersonator makes a stunning discovery in a morgue, he goes proper to the web and down a rabbit gap right into a world of conspiracy. His mission to reveal the darkish underbelly of Tupelo sparks a rivalry that begins native however climbs to the best workplace in Washington, D.C.”
Simply two good-old boys who positively imply one another some hurt. Oh, and one in all them positively meant President Obama some hurt.
“4 years in the past, we had a faint reminiscence of an Elvis impersonator charged with sending a toxic substance to President Obama in 2013,” the Method Brothers advised IndieWire. “What we initially thought could be a slice of small-town Americana exploded into an electrifying examination of conspiracies, feuds, betrayals, and southern storytelling. Benefit from the journey, we did.”
The Methods moreover advised IndieWire that they’re on an “limitless seek for the correct story” and that they’re all the time on the searching for three issues: “A stranger than fiction story, bigger than life characters, and a really distinctive setting. Thank god we discovered Tupelo, the birthplace of the King.”
(Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi; his Graceland house is in Memphis.)
“The Kings of Tupelo: A Southern Crime Saga” premieres on December 11, 2024 on Netflix. Watch the trailer: