Luhrmann directed Elvis (2022), starring Austin Butler as the legendary musician and Tom Hanks such as Colonel Tom Parker, the singer’s representative.
Baz Luhrmann was present on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival And he talked about his new documentary Epic: Elvis Presley in Concertthat disregards images of lost concerts long ago of the residence of Elvis In Las Vegas. The filmmaker confirmed that his long discussed theatrical musical adaptation of his 2022 is also formally in process.
“I don’t know if we have announced it, but a musical is being made about the movie,” he said.
Luhrmann, of course, directed Elvis, starring Austin Butler like the legendary musician and Tom Hanks Like Colonel Tom Parker, the singer’s representative. The film was a resounding success, raising more than 288 million dollars worldwide and obtaining eight Oscar nominations, including best film and best actor (for Butler).
What Epic is about: Elvis Presley in concert
Now, Luhrmann returns with Epic: Elvis Presley in concert, a documentary for which he restored lost images of Elvis concerts, along with unpublished images of two concert documentaries (Elvis: That’s the way it is of 1970 and Elvis on Tour of 1972). Like Elvis de Luhrmann, “Epic” It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, including IMAX screens and other premium formats. The new documentary has just been released at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Luhrmann spoke with the dam about how the residence in Las Vegas was a turning point for the artist: he had many ambitions to make a tour of England and Japan. (He never arrived in Japan). But with Las Vegas, he was caught.
“We speculate what would have happened if it had not been like a bird hitting his head against a crystal, if he had turned and turned in the same circuit. He was not destined to be in Las Vegas more than once. He was there until the last moment,” Luhrmann said.
He began to hear about the lost recordings when preparing Elvis’s movie. “The tapes were mythical. No one knew if they really existed”Said Luhrmann. He sent a team to Kansas salt mines, where MGM keeps all his negatives. Said the vaults were like In search of the lost ark. It was in the mines where he found 35 hours of negatives, although there was no magnetic tape, so they had to look for secondary sources to create the audio.
He worked with Peter Jackson and Park Road’s team, who also collaborated in some recent Beatles documentaries, to find the right audio. Little by little, the project was taking shape. Sometimes he combined audio and video, sometimes he used various resources –“A combination between its original voice on stage, some recorded voices, our own orchestrations”– To create what Luhrmann called “a dream landscape.”
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