‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ Doc From ‘Elvis’ Biopic Director Gets Release Date, Trailer, Soundtrack
by Best Classic Bands Staff
A scene from EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, via Toronto International Film Festival.
There’s plenty of news for the upcoming documentary, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, drawn from newly discovered performance, rehearsal footage, and spoken audio recordings. The feature-length film, from director Baz Luhrmann, comes more than three years after his acclaimed biopic, Elvis, from 2022. EPiC will debut on IMAX screens on Feb. 20, 2026, and will open wide a week later, on Feb. 27, via NEON and Universal Pictures International. The film received rave reviews following its September 6, 2025, worldwide premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Watch a teaser trailer below.
EPiC features long-lost footage from Presley’s legendary Vegas residency in the 1970s, woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour and treasured 8mm film from the Graceland archive, along with rediscovered recordings of Elvis telling “his side of the story.”
A scene from EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.
On Jan. 8, Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, and RCA Records announced the release of its Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a collection of 27 recordings heard in the upcoming film, featuring updated mixes of iconic live performances alongside new remixes and medleys of classic Elvis recordings. (We’ve got the first release below.) The CD arrives on Feb. 20, the same day as the IMAX premiere. The 2-LP edition will be released on April 24. Both are available for pre-order in the U.S. here, in Canada here and in the U.K. here. An Amazon-exclusive edition on translucent yellow and orange vinyl is available here.
As Luhrmann told an industry gathering last May, “During the making of Elvis, we went on a search for rumored unseen footage from the iconic 1970s concert films Elvis: That’s The Way It Is and Elvis on Tour. My initial thought was that we may be able to restore the unused footage (if we could find it) and use it in our Elvis feature. I had researchers go into the Warner Bros. film vaults buried in underground salt mines and, to the astonishment of all, we uncovered 68 boxes of film negative, as well as unseen 8mm footage.”
Watch the official teaser trailer
It took two years to restore the footage to a quality that it has never been projected at previously. The director added, “One of the great finds has been unheard recordings of Elvis talking about his life and his music. It was this that gave the inspiration for EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, which is not specifically a documentary, nor a concert film: Elvis takes the audience through the journey of his life, weaving never-before-seen footage with iconic performances that have never been presented in this way, from the 1970 Vegas show, on tour in 1972 [and more].”
Listen to “Wearin’ That Night Life Look,” which draws from four classic Presley recordings (“Wearin’ That Loved On Look,” “Night Life,” “I, John,” “Let Yourself Go”) to “create an entirely new track from Elvis DNA,” as envisioned by Luhrmann and the film’s GRAMMY nominated music producer Jamieson Shaw
In his Sept. 7 review for Variety, Owen Gleiberman called the film “extraordinary.” “Think back to the greatest concert you ever saw,” he wrote. “Now think back to the greatest moment in that concert, the one that gave you chills you can still feel. That’s the kind of experience I predict you’ll have watching EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert.”
The Wrap wrote, “It’s the most imaginative, generous and entertaining look at a time in which Elvis’ comeback still had real life to it.”
The film is produced by Sony Music Vision, in partnership with Legacy Recordings, Bazmark and Authentic Studios. Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic took in $288 million at the worldwide box-office and earned eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best Actor for its star, Austin Butler.
4 Comments so far
Jump into a conversationI have been an Elvis fan for more than sixty years. So, I will, of course, see EPIC on the big screen.
But if I were not an Elvis fan, the less-than-impressive trailer above would not “tease” me into any theater to see this movie.
The King is Back! I’ll be going to the cinema to see this, its Elvis.
The last time I saw Elvis in a theater was when the CBS ‘Elvis in Concert’ got a brief run after he died.
As with old movies from the 40s, it will be nice to see Elvis as clear as day, close enough to touch.
Hello, Old Friend.
Bad trailer looks just like “Thats the way it is” and “vegas” combined. Then they make up a song out of 4 songs. Seriously? Not paying to see it. HUGE ELVIS FAN, but this is a joke because also IF there was something suddenly found I am sure Priscilla would have been all over it somehow to make money! Let Elvis rest in peace for dear sake!