Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann's "EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert," which had its world premiere at the Toronto film festival Saturday, is a love letter to the King of Rock and Roll seven years in the making.

A fusion of concert movie and quasi-documentary, it uses long-lost footage unearthed by the director while researching his 2022 Oscar-nominated drama "Elvis," starring Austin Butler.

Luhrmann and his team gained extensive access to Presley's Graceland family archive, as well as salt mines in Kansas where Warner Bros stored almost 60 hours of film negative in its cool, pitch-dark underground vaults for decades.

"We'd heard... there may be mythical footage," Luhrmann told the Toronto premiere audience.

"The guys went in and said, 'actually we have found the negatives.'"

Some of the footage

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