Baz Luhrmann Returns to Elvis with New Concert Film Opening This Weekend

Baz Luhrmann is taking audiences back to Graceland.

The director behind 2022's "Elvis" sat down with NBC Palm Springs' Manny the Movie Guy to talk about his new documentary "EPIC"—short for Elvis Presley In Concert—opening on 1,900 screens across America this weekend.

"Finding this material literally in salt mines, this tape where Elvis tells about his life story," Luhrmann told Manny. "We're seeing three generations going—kids who don't know anything about Elvis, applauding, clapping."

The film pulls from over 65 reels of lost footage, 59 hours of material, and a lost 45-minute interview. Luhrmann calls it a "dreamscape.”

"What people are confused about is he thought he was doing this show once," Luhrmann said. The film reveals Elvis planned to take his act to England and Japan, "and for reasons which we cover in the movie, he never, ever performs outside the United States."

The film is essentially giving Elvis the world tour he never had, Luhrmann said—decades after his death.