has dropped the official trailer for his upcoming animated biopic titled . The trailer kicks off with the LEGO version of sitting down for an interview with Morgan Neville, the Oscar-winning documentarian behind . With initial doubts, Neville can be heard chuckling and asking, “Seriously?” to which P replies, “Just be open.
” Reimagined scenes from P’s life are show vibrantly and colorfully. The interview wa sfrom a conversation five years ago when both him and Williams sign onto a Zoom chat to discuss the project together. Pharrell told , “That’s how the conversation went down in my head.
I didn’t know what it was going to be, but it was going to be interesting and I was completely in.” He explained, “What we made is not like any other movie. I don’t know what a comp for it would be.
People can try and label it. It’s just its own film. It’s mind-blowing, in a way, the freedom that we were able to put together in the film, but that only works if you’re channeling your subject.
” In the trailer, Pharrell recalls a childhood memory and how he always saw things differently than other kids, “I loved music. It was mesmerizing to me.” He added, ” I would see beautiful hues of light cascading.
I just thought that’s what all Black kids did — they stared into the speaker like ‘Whoa.’” Pharrell also posted to Instagram the trailer, shouting out features in the film that include Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Busta.
