Pharrell Williams and Michel Gondry scrap their film “Golden” within the edit room: ‘We’re upset’

Nothing gold can keep certainly.

Multitalented musician and producer Pharrell Williams and French filmmaker Michel Gondry have scrapped their coming-of-age film musical Golden within the midst of postproduction, explaining that they couldn't execute their imaginative and prescient for the undertaking.

"When all of us obtained into the modifying room we collectively determined there wasn't a path ahead to inform the model of this story that we initially envisioned," Williams and Gondry stated Friday in a press release supplied to Leisure Weekly. "We admire all of the exhausting work of the gifted solid and crew. Whereas we're upset, we are able to't ship this movie, we have now unimaginable companions at Common and can collaborate in a unique capability once more quickly."

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Beforehand slated to hit theaters Could 5 and previously titled Atlantis, the movie was arrange at Common Photos, the place Williams has a longstanding inventive partnership. In keeping with Selection, which first reported the information, Common will eat roughly $20 million in prices on the undertaking, and it’ll not be shopped elsewhere. The studio had no remark.

Golden was a star-studded affair, with a solid that included Halle Bailey, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Da'Vine Pleasure Randolph, Brian Tyree Henry, Janelle Monáe, Missy Elliott, Quinta Brunson, and Anderson .Paak.

Williams has been acknowledged with 13 Grammys on 39 nominations, for work on his personal and in collaboration with artists corresponding to Nile Rodgers, Daft Punk, Beyoncé, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, and Janet Jackson. He was additionally named males's inventive director at Louis Vuitton in 2023.

Gondry received an Oscar for writing 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which he additionally directed, together with films corresponding to Be Type Rewind and The Science of Sleep. He's helmed music movies from artists such because the White Stripes, Björk, Radiohead, and Paul McCartney.

Final yr, Common's Focus Options division launched the animated film Piece by Piece, a collab between Williams and director Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom, Gained't You be My Neighbor?) telling Williams' life story totally in Legos. The movie options the voices of Williams, Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Timbaland, and lots of different music standouts.

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Speaking to Empire magazine in November, Williams defined then that Piece By Piece was about his life generally, "whereas Golden is a few neighborhood that I grew up in."

He added, "It's a musical expedition set in the summertime of 1977 in Virginia Seaside. It's a coming-of-age story about self-discovery and pursuing your goals, nevertheless it's a lot extra magical than that. It's a celebration of Black life, Black tradition, and most significantly, Black pleasure."

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