Elvis: The King's Realm Discussion Forum

Johnny2523 wrote: September 28th, 2025, 9:43 am

Iwillbetrue wrote: September 28th, 2025, 8:03 am

Sweet-Angeline wrote: September 28th, 2025, 7:08 am

The 1961 Hawaii concert footage

1957

Yes 1957.

Whilst obviously not featured in EPiC, I heard from a very reliable source that some footage from the '61 Hawaii show absolutely exists.

Iwillbetrue wrote: September 28th, 2025, 1:53 pm

Johnny2523 wrote: September 28th, 2025, 9:43 am

Iwillbetrue wrote: September 28th, 2025, 8:03 am

Sweet-Angeline wrote: September 28th, 2025, 7:08 am

The 1961 Hawaii concert footage

1957

Yes 1957.

The Hawaii 57 footage is 10 minutes long but they only used a few parts for Epic...

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Kevan Budd.

I was there too. It was an amazing experience. The combination of two wonderful huge talents. I dont think I've ever seen a better, more touching Elvis documentary, sound poem, whatever you want to call it. Goosebumps! I really hope this will run in cinemas around the world, imax should be an amazing experience. I think there were about 4 people from the Netherlands and we met a lovely younger couple (30 year olds) that drove all the way from Belgium.

Get a load of this.... Yeah Baby !!!!!!!!! WOoohooooo !!!!

I’m late in posting this but I was at the September 6th premiere in Toronto.

Two men in their 60’s discuss all things Elvis after the worldwide premiere of EPiC - Elvis Presley In Concert. Yesterday was a worldwind viewing EPiC, which was spectacular. The quality of the footage from 1970 and 1972 is incredible. Especially the 1972 footage that was filmed on 16mm as opposed to 35mm for the 1970 footage. The sound is out of this world

So many others have posted about their thoughts on the movie already, but as you can see, my night didn’t end until the early morning hours of September 7th

I had a chance to talk to Jonathan Redmond the film editor last night. He did say, despite the fact that they used short clips of some of the songs they would like to put them out in their full versions at some point likely on the Blu-ray extended version that will come out sometime next year, I believe. 

I can’t thank our son Sean, his Montreal friend Kevin and Baz Luhrmann and his Toronto (Kory) and Australian PR teams enough. They were so gracious and wonderful… and Baz is a true gentleman and a joy to talk to, and he is a sincere and true Elvis fan.

I must admit I was a bit skeptical, but from what I've seen and heard so far, this film is the best thing that could happen to us Elvis fans. Not only has Baz made a film that demolishes the "Fat Elvis In Vegas" cliché for a wider audience and (rightly) presents Elvis as one of the greatest performers ever, which will surely attract a new audiences (just like the 2022 film did).

But thanks to the collaboration between Sony Vision, Authentic Studio, and Warner Bros. (all three have a stake in the film, as Sony holds the music rights, Authentic holds the general trademark rights, and Warner holds the film rights), there's a good chance that, if successful, they'll collaborate on more films like this in the coming years to sky rocket "their" Elvis brand.
And we're also hearing Baz Luhrman and Jonathan Redmond talking about releasing a Blu-ray box set with complete versions of the songs used in EPIC.
This film opens so many new opportunities, but it needs to be a resounding commercial success.

So go and see EPIC in the cinema and not once or twice, see it 3 or 4 times. Just to be sure. It is an investment in future joy for the entire fanbase

Some more tasty tidbits from the film, including the much anticipated & unreleased "Never Been To Spain" from Hampton Roads.

Here's Ernst talking about EPIC and FTD, on Elvis Day by Day, thanks to Anthony Stuchbury.

https://elv75.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo ... KK3GsM4ZGA

John wrote: October 5th, 2025, 10:40 am Here's Ernst talking about EPIC and FTD, on Elvis Day by Day, thanks to Anthonhy Stuchbury.

https://elv75.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo ... KK3GsM4ZGA

direct link....Thanks again to Tony S. (Anthony) for recording this at the event !!

I think the strangest thing about this "distributor" issue, is the fact that WB could just as easily do it themselves, but it seems like they don`t want to put in any further investment. It is a known fact that they were hesitant about the millions spent for the ELVIS 2022 film, but it paid off. Those type of films always seem to make the distributor a tad nervous. With the great reviews and great attendance, you would think that concern would be silenced a bit, but it does not seem that way with WB, strange

ElvisAliSellers wrote: September 28th, 2025, 2:09 pm Whilst obviously not featured in EPiC, I heard from a very reliable source that some footage from the '61 Hawaii show absolutely exists.

Surely that is Hawaii 1957. Sorry didn’t see the title at the top

...a mistake not to have this in theatres by late November this year. The first quarter of 2026 would not be a good time.

Sweet-Angeline wrote: October 6th, 2025, 8:28 am ...a mistake not to have this in theatres by late November this year. The first quarter of 2026 would not be a good time.

Why wouldn’t it be a good time?

FanFrom'61 wrote: October 6th, 2025, 9:56 am

Sweet-Angeline wrote: October 6th, 2025, 8:28 am ...a mistake not to have this in theatres by late November this year. The first quarter of 2026 would not be a good time.

Why wouldn’t it be a good time?

...for the exact same reasons as Ernst Jorgensen stated in the video above!!

martin018 wrote: October 6th, 2025, 1:05 am Surely that is Hawaii 1957. Sorry didn’t see the title at the top

yes the 57 footage was mislabeled as 61