John Wilson is apparently going from The History Of Concrete to the life of Harry Styles

The How To creator has apparently been spotted following Styles around with a camera during his current. Madison Square Garden residency.

John Wilson is apparently going from The History Of Concrete to the life of Harry Styles

Although it’s been slightly eclipsed at the moment by his buddy Nathan Fielder’s own forays into the documentary form, we here at The A.V. Club have been pretty big fans of John Wilson’s The History Of Concrete, which film editor Jacob Oller has described as a sort of feature-length expansion of Wilson’s intentionally meandering, deliberately (and delightfully) digressive HBO show How To With John Wilson. And, like Fielder, it turns out that Wilson has also recently accepted an invitation to closely film a person huge swathes of the planet is fascinated by, and familiar with—except that, instead of currently incarcerated Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, it’s pop musician Harry Styles.

This is per Variety, which reports that Wilson has apparently spent the last two months following Styles around with his ever-present camera, filming a future documentary that’s possibly being set up for a theatrical release at Universal. Focused on Styles’ current Madison Square Garden residency, sources say the film will blend concert footage with stuff that sounds significantly more Wilson-like, including “authentic human stories of everyone involved in the tour—from the singer and his fans to countless others behind the scenes.” Although nobody involved has confirmed anything, the existence of the project began being speculated about after fans recently caught a picture of Wilson following Styles around, camera in tow.

This is, we’re just going to go ahead and say it, a weird meeting of subject and filmmaker. It’s not like Styles doesn’t seem like a fairly nice and cool guy, or hard to imagine how he might have hit on the idea of hiring a hot indie filmmaker to make something more specific about him than the usual pop star fluff. But Wilson is deliberately idiosyncratic and self-directed in his choice of material to follow, and especially in the ways he assembles that footage into stories; it’s hard to imagine a version of this project that won’t run into the tension between “being a Harry Styles concert film” and “being a John Wilson documentary about how weird it is to follow Harry Styles around.” That being said, we’d also be lying if we said we weren’t fascinated to see how it all pans out.

 
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