{"id":307869,"date":"2026-02-20T10:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:50:11","slug":"baz-luhrmann-on-elvis-presley-bono-read-me-his-poem-about-the-king-it-was-the-perfect-way-to-end-our-film-epic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/307869\/","title":{"rendered":"Baz Luhrmann on Elvis Presley: \u2018Bono read me his poem about the King&#8230; \u2028it was the perfect way to end our film, EPiC\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nLuhrmann on the 50 hours of never-before-seen footage that inspired his new Presley documentary \u2018EPiC\u2019, and letting The King tell his own story at last\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The King warming up in \u2018EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ir EPiCStills_1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The King warming up in \u2018EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Baz Luhrmann thought he was done with Elvis Presley. His biopic, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, was widely acclaimed in 2022 and nominated for several Oscars. He had first got the ball rolling on Elvis some eight years before and, yet, there was unfinished business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the course of working on that lengthy feature, the Australian auteur filmmaker had come in contact with more than 50 hours of never-before-seen footage of Presley, with much of it depicting him rehearsing for his Las Vegas shows, as well as concert footage from that residency at Sin City\u2019s International Hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luhrmann on the 50 hours of never-before-seen footage that inspired his new Presley documentary \u2018EPiC\u2019, and letting The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,280,278,279],"class_list":{"0":"post-307869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-john-meagher","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-review-magazine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}