Overview

• The film draws on nearly 59 hours of long-lost negatives found in Warner Bros.’ Kansas salt-mine vaults and restored with Peter Jackson’s Park Road team.
• Much of the material lacked synchronized sound, leading to a multi-year effort using lip-readers, disparate audio sources, and selective re-recordings to rebuild performances.
• Luhrmann structures the piece as a tone poem, weaving in a roughly 45–50 minute previously unreleased tape of Presley speaking to let him narrate the story.
• The TIFF world premiere prompted a standing ovation and dancing in the aisles, with reviews praising the restoration and showmanship even as some critique its selective framing.
• Release plans remain unsettled, with festival reports saying there is no distributor yet and other coverage reporting Warner Bros. involvement, as Luhrmann teases more archival projects and a possible sequel.