Baz Luhrmann discovered many more intimate details about the King of Rock while working on his new film, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Ahead of the release of his latest project EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has revealed he discovered intimate details about the King of Rock while working on the documentary-style movie.
Baz Luhrmann discovered many more intimate details about the King of Rock while working on his new film, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.
The filmmaker, 62, carried out a huge deep dive into the late singer for his 2022 film starring Austin Butler as the music icon, but has now said his latest project on the legend threw even more light for him on his life.
Baz, whose new Elvis film premiered at the recent Toronto International Film Festival, based his new project on 36 hours of archival footage from Elvis’ 1969 residency at the International Hotel in Las Vegas. Speaking to People, Baz described the film as “a cinematic tone poem” rather than a straightforward documentary or concert recording.
He said: “Documentaries about Elvis tend to be people talking about him: ‘Well, Elvis is this.’
“As we go through the material, we recognise we have him in his prime… singing like never before seen. “We found 40 minutes of (footage) of him actually talking about his life, himself.”
Elvis, born on 8 January, 1935, and who died in 1977 at the age of 42, has been the subject of numerous biopics and documentaries.
