Piece by Piece will be directed by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville
Pharrell Williams has teamed with Lego and Focus Features for Piece by Piece, an unparalleled motion picture experience that captures the magic and brilliance of Williams’ creative genius, one Lego brick at a time. Uninterested in making a traditional film about his life, Pharrell set out to tell his story in a way that would set the audience’s imaginations free. Developed from his singular vision, the film defies genres and expectations to transport audiences into a Lego world where anything is possible. Piece by Piece was directed by Academy Award winner Morgan Neville and produced by Neville and Caitrin Rogers (Tremolo Productions) alongside producers Williams, Mimi Valdés, and Shani Saxon of Williams’ I Am Other production company. Jill Wilfert and Keith Malone are executive producing for the Lego Group. The film will debut in theaters on October 11th.
“When I had this crazy vision to tell this story through Lego bricks, I couldn’t have imagined a better partner than Morgan. He is a legend,” shares Williams. “Grateful that Focus wanted to collaborate with us and I’m honored to share this with the world and bring people into my universe. Building with Lego bricks encourages us to follow our imagination…who would’ve thought that playing with these toys as a kid would evolve into a movie about my life? It’s proof that anyone else can do it too.”
Williams is a visionary recording artist, producer, songwriter, philanthropist, fashion designer, and entrepreneur with 10B combined global music streams. He has been honored with 13 Grammy Awards, including 2004, 2014, and 2019 Producer of the Year, and ASCAP’s Golden Note Award in 2012. He has received two Academy Award nominations for his original song “Happy” (Despicable Me 2) and for Best Picture-nominated Hidden Figures (2016) as a producer. Williams also received a Golden Globe Nomination for co-scoring the film. In 2019, Williams received an Emmy nomination for his original song “Letter to My Godfather,” for Netflix’s Black Godfather about legendary music executive Clarence Avant. In 2020, Williams was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame for his work as The Neptunes.
In 2018, Pharrell narrated Universal’s remake of the classic film The Grinch, authored the book A Fish Doesn’t Know It’s Wet, and released the Netflix Original series Brainchild (2018) with his producing partner, Mimi Valdés. Other projects include Dope (2015), Roxanne Roxanne (2017), Voices of Fire (2020), and Amazon’s Harlem, which has been renewed for a third season.
In February 2023, Pharrell was named Louis Vuitton’s new Menswear Creative Director.