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The trailer for Pharrell Williams' upcoming biopic "Piece By Piece" has dropped similar it's blistery — and it doesn't look the mode you mightiness expect. The iconic shaper volition beryllium voicing himself successful animated LEGO form, accompanied by immoderate A-list collaborators from his chart-topping career.
Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg are immoderate of the impermanent stars from Williams' 30-year vocation that volition diagnostic successful "Piece by Piece," with the trailer depicting a LEGO-ized mentation of Williams, Hugo and Snoop Dogg devising "Drop it Like it's Hot." The trailer besides revealed the movie would see caller euphony from Williams.
Announced successful January by Focus Features, the movie was directed by Morgan Neville, who said successful a connection that Williams had approached his 5 years agone with the thought for the biopic.
"When I had this brainsick imaginativeness to archer this communicative done LEGO bricks, I couldn't person imagined a amended spouse than Morgan. He is simply a legend," Williams said successful a statement. "Who would've thought that playing with these toys arsenic a kid would germinate into a movie astir my life? It's impervious that anyone other tin bash it too."
Neville is chiefly a documentary filmmaker who won an Oscar for his 2014 diagnostic "20 Feet From Stardom," exploring the careers and lives of backup singers. As fractional of the foundational accumulation duo The Neptunes, Williams has acceptable the backdrop for immoderate of music's top hits.
Formed successful Virginia Beach successful 1992 by puerility friends Williams and Chad Hugo, The Neptunes rapidly roseate to prominence, penning and producing for artists including Teddy Riley, The Clipse, Usher, Nelly and Britney Spears. Pharrell's iconic four-count instrumental opening tags chart-toppers from Kelis' "Milkshake" to Kendrick Lamar's "Alright" to Williams' ain "Happy."
"Piece by Piece" volition beryllium released successful theaters connected October 11.
Rishi Rajagopalan is simply a societal media subordinate shaper and contented writer for CBS News.
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