Check Out The New Poster And IMAX Trailer For Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert

One of the profound memories of my childhood is of my parents picking my sister and I up from summer sleepaway camp in August of 1977. My mother was crying. Not because she was happy to see us after 2 weeks, but because she had just heard on the car radio that Elvis Presley had died. Elvis meant so much to so many people – not only the baby-boom generation (my parents), but also their kids, the Gen-Xers. Even if you didn’t know all of Elvis’s catalog of songs, you knew who he was and why he was dubbed “The King.”

In EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT, director Baz Luhrmann takes us back, to remind us why Elvis was and is rock and roll royalty and the ultimate pop-culture touchstone.

From director Baz Luhrmann:

During the making of Elvis (2022), we went on a search for rumored unseen footage from the iconic1970s concert films Elvis: That’s the Way It Is and Elvis on Tour that had reportedly been lost.

Throughout this incredibly detailed process, one of the great finds has been unheard recordings of Elvis talking about his life and his music: from the 1970 Vegas show, on tour in 1972 and even precious moments of the 1957 “goldjacket” performance in Hawaii. I knew that we could not pass up this opportunity. It was these discoveries that gave the inspiration for the new film.

What if, instead of reduxing the previous works, we made a film that wasn’t a documentary and wasn’t a concert film? What if Elvis came to you in a dreamscape, almost like a cinematic poem, and sang to you and told you his story in a way in which you haven’t experienced before?

We asked the what ifs and answered them in what we are about to present at Toronto International Film Festivals’s 50th Edition- EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, Elvis sings and tells his story like never before. Elvis takes the audience through the journey of his life, through both classic and contemporary musical prisms, weaving unseen footage with iconic performances that have never been presented in this.

EPiC Elvis takes the audience through the journey of his life, through both classic and contemporary musical prisms, weaving unseen footage with iconic performances that have never been presented in this way. EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is a leap of the musical imagination and a tribute to one of the greatest performers of all time.

EPiC: ELVIS PRESLEY IN CONCERT plays one week IMAX EXCLUSIVE Starting February 20 and in cinemas worldwide February 27.