Why Baz Luhrmann can’t help thinking about Elvis

While making his 2022 film “Elvis” – the biopic starring Austin Butler as Elvis Presley and Tom Hanks as his manager, Colonel Tom Parker – Baz Luhrmann’s team discovered a treasure trove of old film footage. Stored in a salt mine in Kansas, these reels, originally shot by MGM in the early 1970s, captured Elvis Presley rehearsing and performing during his comeback concerts at the International Hotel in Las Vegas after a period of making movies in Hollywood.