From the Gold Coast to Graceland, Baz Luhrmann has spent close to three years making a Hollywood movie about Elvis Presley | gmaddox
was shot in Queensland and in the US with the support of the Presley estate.
Baz Luhrmann at the editing theatre he built on the Gold Coast, modelled on Elvis Presley’s suite in the Las Vegas Hilton, to shoot the new Hollywood biopic.“I had the privilege, as the ultimate outsider, to be allowed into the world of Elvis,” Luhrmann said. “He was the original punk in some regards,” he said. “He was wildly provocative ... there really were riots.”
“We came up with an unusual language – a musical language – for the film,” Luhrmann said. “Austin would sing all the young Elvis., it’s Elvis.”
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