Director Morgan Neville crafts a compelling biopic-documentary hybrid, 'Piece by Piece,' that tells the story of legendary music producer Pharrell Williams using interviews and dramatic retellings visualized with vibrant LEGO animation.
Piece by Piece is a LEGO movie like never before. Exploring the life of legendary music producer Pharrell Williams through interviews and dramatic retellings—all realized with animated LEGO bricks–Piece by Piece is part biopic, part documentary, and all creativity.
Morgan Neville Details How Piece By Piece Came To Be “We Had To Make Up The Process … From The Beginning” Screen Rant: I saw Pharrell call you his director of choice, but how did this even start, and how did this come to you? Morgan Neville: There were no rules. He didn't even say, “This is my story.” In fact, a lot of the stuff I get into, I had to dig out. It wasn't like, “Oh, this is the hard part of my life.” It was just me talking to him and talking to him and talking to other people and figuring it out. I basically finished a cut of the film before we animated it, like a radio cut with drawings, movie clips, footage we had shot, archive footage, and music videos. and I finished that on my own.
We had to make up the process of making the film from the beginning. I hired a kid out of art school to draw, I stuck in all these movie clips and everything, and we built a cut of the film before we animated it. Then we went to an animation studio and storyboarded the whole film from the beginning. Morgan Neville: Well, the conceit of the film… you need to land that somehow. It wasn't the plan from the beginning, but as we started editing, it became apparent that my point of view helps us explain what we're doing here. Otherwise, it would've been hard. I feel like, in part, the movie is a story about me trying to make sense of his life and how to interpret it in LEGO, so it was an editorial solution that actually became really useful in trying to put it together.
Some of it is literally going back . Recreating the “Rump Shaker” video was awesome, but it’s also like we’re just taking this thing and trying to transform it into a LEGO thing. We ended up having a lot of discussions about how wide the back of a bikini thong could be on a female minifig from the “Rump Shaker” scene. And we actually got into it with the Motion Picture Association of America for ratings.
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