Why Baz Luhrmann chose to make an Elvis biopic: "He is an amazing canvas"

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Source: Hugh Stewart / Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc

”Elvis is an amazing canvas because he’s there at the crossroads of culture in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s, for the good, the bad and the ugly.”

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