Baz Luhrmann on plans to expand Elvis, his historic Cannes parties, Broadway’s Moulin Rouge and the epic film he’s adapting into a six-part streaming series

If I had to describe Baz Luhrmann in one word, this would be it inexhaustible. The director whose last film elvis became a worldwide hit and is now generating major Oscar buzz that never seems to stop. He’s been promoting the film since its world premiere at Cannes in May and even before that, and now he’s even mulling future plans to expand the musical numbers in a special edition sometime in the future. When he makes a film, directs a TV series, directs an opera, works on and records music, or in the theater, he gives his all. Exactly 30 years have passed since his first film, Ballroom only. Since then, his films have been, and of course are, among the biggest worldwide hits by an Australian filmmaker Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Gatsby, Australia, and now elvis

He joins me for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series, Behind the lens and talk about them all and more. One of our themes is the series of unforgettable parties he headlined at Cannes, his association with the multi-Tony Award-winning stage production of Moulin Rouge, how he somehow personally identifies with Jay Gatsby, and the new streaming version of his epic movie starring Hugh Jackman/Nicole Kidman Australia which he reduced to six episodes, creating a whole new experience of the film that he says failed in America, but still remains his biggest hit of all time in Europe.

Luhrmann is truly one of a kind in the entertainment world and we cover the coastline of a remarkable career in our talk, which you can watch by clicking the link above.

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