EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert boasts re-discovered and restored outtakes from the King’s 1970 Las Vegas residency and 1972 American tour, as well as other archival finds
A new Elvis Presley concert film, directed by Baz Luhrmann and featuring a trove of previously unreleased footage and recordings, is set to hit theaters in 2026, Variety reports.
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is centered largely around recently discovered video of Presley’s famous 1970 Las Vegas residency and his 1972 North American tour. It also features new 8mm footage from the Graceland archives, as well as recordings of Presley discussing his life, which Luhrmann discovered while working on the 2022 biopic, Elvis.
EPiC premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month. It’s since been acquired by Neon, which will release the movie theatrically in the U.S. in 2026.
In a new statement, Luhrmann described EPiC as “an experience that is not just a documentary and not just a concert film.” He added: “From the first day my editor, Jonathan Redmond, and I encountered this rare and never-before-seen footage of Elvis almost 8 years ago, it has been our mission that Elvis should finally fulfill his unrealized dream to tour around the world.”
Most of the unreleased footage was originally filmed for Presley’s two early Seventies concert films: 1970’s Elvis: That’s the Way It Is and 1972’s Elvis on Tour. As Luhrmann previously explained, he set out to find this lost footage at the start of making Elvis, originally thinking that, if they were able to find it, they might be able to restore it and use it in the biopic.
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Not only did they find this footage in a Warner Bros. vault — situated in, of all places, an underground salt mine in Kansas — Luhrmann said they “uncovered 68 boxes of film negative, as well as unseen 8mm footage.” There was even a new video from Presley’s famed 1957 “gold lamé jacket” concert in Hawaii. But the director’s favorite finds were the “unheard recordings of Elvis talking about his life and music,” which inspired him to make EPiC.
Luhrmann and his team have spent the past two years restoring the video footage for presentation. He also said they had to “meticulously claw back sound from the many, unconventional sources that were also unearthed.”
