SPOILER ALERT: This story contains minor spoilers for “The History of Concrete,” now in theaters.
\n\nJohn Wilson’s new documentary “The History of Concrete” is, of course, about the history of concrete. But it’s also about selling a documentary titled “The History of Concrete,” which, it turns out, is almost as hard as concrete.
\n\nIt sees the filmmaker, best known for his HBO series “How To,” traveling across the world — to concrete conventions in Las Vegas and New Orleans, to ancient buildings in Italy and to graves in undisclosed locations. But he also documents the Zoom meetings in between, where he pitches the idea to Hollywood executives and tells them the film’s title. Underneath their deep sighs, you can almost hear them mutter: Who wants to watch a movie called “The History of Concrete”?
\n\n“I genuinely did want to make the definitive movie about concrete,” Wilson says of the doc, now in theaters via Magnolia Pictures. “I ended up incorporating the meta aspects about a year or so into the process, because I felt like that was becoming a more interesting story. And I wanted to make something that another filmmaker could learn something from, about how things are produced…
Original source: https://variety.com/
