Pharrell Williams has launched the primary trailer for his upcoming Lego biopic Piece by Piece.
The clip opens with Lego variations of Williams and director Morgan Neville, greatest recognized for his 2013 movie about backing singers 20 Ft from Stardom which received the Academy Award for Finest Documentary Characteristic and the Grammy for Finest Music Movie.
Williams tells Neville: “You realize what could be cool? If we informed my story with Lego!”
The 51-year-old musician introduced earlier this yr that he could be making the unconventional movie about his journey to change into some of the profitable report producers alive, having created big worldwide hits like “Comfortable”, Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Traces” and Kelis’s “Milkshake.”
Within the trailer Williams is joined by a bunch of the artists he’s collaborated with through the years, together with Snoog Dogg, Gwen Stefani and Busta Rhymes.
In a press launch, the filmmakers mentioned: “Tired of making a conventional movie about his life, Pharrell got down to inform his story in a manner that might set viewers’s imaginations free.
“Developed from his singular imaginative and prescient, Piece by Piece defies genres and expectations to move audiences right into a Lego world the place something is feasible.”
In an announcement, Williams mentioned: “After I had this loopy imaginative and prescient to inform this story by means of Lego bricks, I couldn’t have imagined a greater accomplice than Morgan. He’s a legend. Grateful that Focus needed to collaborate with us and I’m honored to share this with the world and produce individuals into my universe.
“Constructing with Lego bricks encourages us to comply with our creativeness… who would’ve thought that enjoying with these toys as a child would evolve right into a film about my life. It’s proof that anybody else can do it too.”
Neville mentioned: “5 years in the past, Pharrell Williams approached me with the thought of serving to him inform his story by means of Lego animation. It was a type of uncommon moments the place I knew in a second that this was a journey I needed to go on.
“I’m grateful to our companions at Focus Options and on the Lego Group for his or her perception in our loopy mission. We assembled an unimaginable workforce of inventive collaborators to assist make a brand new sort of movie. I can’t watch for individuals to see it.”
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Focus Options chairman Peter Kujawski added: “Pharrell Williams is a real trailblazer whose affect throughout music, artwork and vogue regularly reshapes international tradition with an simple sense of pleasure.
“In partnering with the inimitable Morgan Neville and the limitless creativity of the Lego model his visionary spirit involves life in a completely distinctive and uplifting manner that can encourage everybody to bounce, to sing, and to make use of their voice to construct the world they need to see, brick by brick, and piece by piece.”
Piece by Piece is about to be launched on 11 October.
Williams shouldn’t be the one artist to be impressed by Lego. In 2021, Ai Weiwei informed The Impartial: “I believe Lego isn’t any totally different from Rembrandt’s paint or Van Gogh’s paint. In the event that they have been alive immediately, they might like to play Legos.”
