So that’s the function of it,” Luhrmann explained.Įlvis Presley during a live performance in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1973. “In the song, Doja is decoding the words, and it’s really saying this is a really edgy song that a lot of young kids parents wouldn’t want their children to hear and Elvis goes on to perform that song on national television. “And the same as Gatsby, I wanted you to feel what jazz felt like. But I don’t do it for that reason,” he told The Post. “It’s like with Gatsby, is it great to have a hit album and a couple of Grammy noms? Sure. Luhrmann - who also directed “The Great Gatsby,” “Moulin Rouge,” and “William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet,” opened up about his bold decision to name Doja Cat’s rap-heavy tune “Vegas” as the main song of the film’s soundtrack. The film offers a unique glimpse into the crooner’s working relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks. The actor said he was rushed to the hospital in March 2021 where he spent a week bedridden after his body “started shutting down the day after I finished Elvis.”īutler was diagnosed with a virus likened to appendicitis after immersing himself in the role so much that his body revolted. “I just absorbed everything that I possibly could.” “I basically put the rest of my life on pause for two years,” Butler said at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year where the film premiered. Getty Imagesīutler surrendered himself to the role and shut himself off from the rest of the world. Luhrmann praised Butler's "devotion" to the role, for which he prepared for two years. “So I thought this idea of the colonel and Elvis has a resonance to the audience. I had cracked the colonel thing about five years ago and I was just feeling that one of them is getting wildly out of balance with the other in our own culture,” Luhrmann said, adding that his main focus was for the film to be “all about the sell.” “Colonel is the big sell, an evil genius. The film focused on the Rock-‘n’-Roll icon’s rise to fame and offered a unique glimpse into his working relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks. He happened to be in one of the few White Houses during his life, and in the Black community and absorbing the Black community and mixing it with country.” Luhrmann opened up about the making of the film during BFI’s “Baz Luhrmann in conversation” event in London. “Particularly 50s, 60s, 70s – the ‘new.’ Elvis represents the new. The two that really fascinate me are the ‘big sell’ – the ability to sell well, and the other is the gesture of the new,” Luhrmann explained. “There are two great American gestures, I think. “I was waiting for the right moment, and also the right way to do it,” Luhrmann told The Post on Wednesday at BFI’s “Baz Luhrmann in conversation” event in London. Luhrmann’s gripping biopic tells the heartbreaking story of the legendary crooner’s life, legacy, and personal troubles, including his ill-fated marriage to Priscilla Presley. Priscilla Presley: ‘Elvis’ was tough to watch because I lived itīaz Luhrmann turning his 2008 ‘Australia’ film into limited seriesĪn Elvis Presley biopic released in 2022 begs the question: Why now?īut for Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann, the question is very simple to answer - the timing was simply right. Rent Baz Luhrmann’s chic NYC townhouse for $75K a month Fans demand 4-hour ‘Elvis’ cut from Baz Luhrmann: ‘I’m too tired’
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