After directing Austin Butler in 2022’s Elvis, Baz Luhrmann dove into 68 boxes of film negative buried deep inside Warner Bros’ salt mines.
Much like Peter Jackson making The Beatles: Get Back with access to hours of unseen Fab Four footage from their Let It Be sessions, Baz has done the same with that of 1970s concert movies Elvis: That’s The Way It Is and Elvis on Tour.
Joining forces with Jonathan Redmond, his Oscar-nominated Elvis movie editor, the pair have put together a 100 minute film that’s somewhere between a documentary and a concert movie, narrated by the King himself.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert has screened at the Toronto Film Festival ahead of a yet-to-be-announced cinematic release date and the critics are going wild for Baz’s second tribute to the King of Rock and Roll.
New York Post
Nothing short of unburied treasure for lovers of The King. A veritable King Tut’s tomb of rock.
Variety
Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis Documentary Is One of the Most Exciting Concert Films You’ve Ever Seen. The movie is a revelation, because for 96 minutes it shows you just how intoxicating Elvis Presley was when he began to perform live in Las Vegas in 1969 and the early ’70s.
The Guardian
The bombastic director’s second film about the music legend shows the singer at his most mesmerising, but the picture remains incomplete
The Wrap
EPiC is a film that more or less follows an Elvis show but is always on the move in and around that show. Offstage Elvis informs onstage Elvis and vice versa, and the zeal with which Luhrmann whips it all up into an undefinable Elvispalooza is fit for a King.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is expected to be in cinemas by the King’s 91st birthday on January 8, 2026.
