Director Stanley Nelson dropped by TheWrap’s studios at Sundance to talk about the challenges of making a two-hour documentary about legendary musician Miles Davis.
“It was really challenging but I think in some ways it was a two-hour story,” Nelson told TheWrap’s Steve Pond. “Everybody wants to do a series now and so many times they seem inflated. I think you have to have something else going on besides just a straight biography if it’s six hours.”
“We tried to get some of every era in there,” added Nelson. “So many people concentrate on the late ’50s-early ’60s Miles, but we wanted also to talk about the ’70s and ’80s Miles.”