“EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026)” features rediscovered and restored discarded footage from the King’s 1970 Las Vegas residency and 1972 American tour, plus other archival finds
A new concert film Elvis Presleydirected by Baz Luhrmann and with a treasure trove of never-before-seen images and recordings, it is scheduled to hit theaters in 2026, reports the Variety.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2026) is centered largely around newly discovered videos of the famous residence of Presley in Las Vegas in 1970 and its 1972 North American tour. The film also features new 8mm footage from the Graceland archives, as well as recordings of Presley talking about your life, which Luhrmann discovered while working on the 2022 biopic, Elvis (2022).
EPiC (2026) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. Since then, it has been acquired by Neonwhich will release the film in U.S. theaters in 2026.
In a new statement, Luhrmann described EPiC (2026) as “an experience that is not just a documentary and is not just a show film”. He added: “From the first day my editor, Jonathan Redmondand I found these rare, never-before-seen images of Elvis For almost eight years, our mission has been that Elvis finally fulfill his unfulfilled dream of touring the world.”
Most of the never-before-seen footage was originally filmed for the first two show films. Presley from the 1970s: Elvis: That’s the Way It Is (1970) and Elvis on Tour (1972). As Luhrmann explained previously, he set out to find these lost images early in the production of Elvis (2022), originally thinking that if they could find them, they could restore them and use them in the biopic.
Not only did they find these images in a vault at Warner Bros. — situated in, of all places, an underground salt mine in Kansas — like Luhrmann said that “they discovered 68 boxes of film negatives, as well as previously unseen 8mm images.” There was even a new video of the famous 1957 concert by Presley with the “gold lamé jacket” in Hawaii. But the director’s favorite discoveries were the “unreleased recordings of Elvis talking about his life and music”, which inspired him to make EPiC (2026).
Luhrmann and his team have spent the last two years restoring video footage for presentation. He also said they had to “meticulously recover sound from the many unconventional sources that were also unearthed.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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