Baz Luhrmann has revealed that he is working on a stage musical centred around the life and career of Elvis Presley.
The Australian filmmaker, who is behind the 2022 Elvis biopic and the new EPiC concert film, revealed the news during a new interview with Dan Morrissey for Magic Radio. Luhrmann was asked about rumours he was considering future projects about the iconic singer, and thinking of doing a stage production next.
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“It’s being worked on, it’s happening,” he replied. “I don’t know if I was supposed to announce it but, hey, I just did.”
He also added that while he is behind the project, he isn’t heavily involved this time around – likening it to how he enlisted writer and director Alex Timbers to take the reins on the 2001 film adaptation of Moulin Rouge.
“I’m not doing it because I have this thing I’ve learned… I can never go backwards,” he added. “I can’t be me when I was 28 doing Romeo + Juliet [1996], but I love handing it on. I’m not precious. I’m like ‘Take my baby!’”.
Since it came out, Luhrmann has teased multiple times that a four-hour “director’s assembly” version of the film could be on the way, and has also created the latest documentary and concert film about the ‘Suspicious Minds’ singer. (NME report)
