Director of Pharrell Williams’ ‘Piece By Piece’ LEGO biopic on why it doesn’t feature ‘Blurred Lines’

nme.com:

Pharrell Williams‘ Piece By Piece LEGO biopic – has revealed why the film does not feature ‘Blurred Lines’.Neville, the animated comedy film sees Pharrell play himself in Lego form, alongside some of his best known collaborators like Gwen Stefani, Kendrick Lamar, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, and Busta Rhymes.A synopsis reads: “Told through the lens of Lego animation, turn up the volume on your imagination and witness the evolution of one of music’s most innovative minds.”Now, in an interview with BBC, Neville opened up on why William’s 2013 chart-topping Grammy-award-winning collaboration with Robin Thicke and T.I.

didn’t make the cut in the film. He shared that he wanted to address the controversy with the track but the sequence had ultimately derailed the story he was trying to tell.“I definitely thought about it.

I even interviewed Robin Thicke,” he told the publication. “And as a documentary filmmaker, I’m obsessed with copyright law.

But every time I looked at trying to work it in, a scene about copyright law, it felt like it belonged in a different movie.”He continued: “My take on the Blurred Lines case is that it’s one of the worst judicial decisions about creativity in history.