Three years on from his Elvis movie starring Austin Butler and Baz Luhrmann has released his second film on the King of Rock and Roll.

During research for the biopic, the director was given access to the Warner Bros Kansas salt mine, where the studio keeps its film archive.

It was here that Baz and his team uncovered a treasure trove: 68 boxes of lost reels featuring 59 hours of previously unseen footage.

Much of it is unused material from two of the King’s 1970s concert documentary movies, Elvis That’s the Way It Is and Elvis on Tour.

Alongside a 45 minute unheard audio recording of the late star talking about his life, there was now a basis for what has become EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.

Baz says it’s neither a documentary nor a concert film, but more of a poem. In essence, it’s cleaned-up live performance footage of Elvis in his 1970s jumpsuit era. With the help of Peter Jackson, who helmed the similar The Beatles: Get Back, the film is cleaned up for an electrifying experience of the nearest you’ll get to seeing Elvis perform live. Sure, he was a singer and an actor, but at the end of the day, with his good looks, energetic stage movements and flamboyant superhero costume, he was first and foremost a performer, and an incredibly entertaining one at that.

Combined with the previously unheard interview audio, Elvis tells us his own story in EPiC, juxtaposing the god-like character he created on stage with the introspective humanity of the real man giving it his all.

It’s quality, but where Elvis fans will probably feel shortchanged is that within the 97 minutes there isn’t a huge amount of the 59 hours of unseen footage on display. Much of the film is highlights we’ve already seen from the two concert movies, including famous clips that have been readily available on YouTube for years. It would have been so much better had Baz and Elvis Presley Enterprises taken a leaf out of Disney and Jackson’s book and given fans what they wanted. Originally, The Beatles: Get Back was set to be one film but in the end was expanded in an 8 hour documentary miniseries with those unseen moments of the Fab Four on full display. Perhaps a version of EPiC featuring 1973’s Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite could match this?

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is out now in IMAX and in regular cinemas from February 27, 2026.