Pharrell Williams' life will become a movie

It promises to be a big year for Pharrell Williams. In a few weeks, the American musician and entrepreneur will present his first collection for Louis Vuitton in Paris, opening Paris Fashion Week, and he will also apparently be the subject of Michel Gondry's next biopic, Atlantis, based on his childhood and set to go into production next July. The project has actually existed for several years, in 2017 The New York Times spoke of the start of pre-production of the film that began under the Fox umbrella and with Michael Mayer as director as a story that combined Pharrell's childhood with a Romeo and Juliet-style love story. Today the project has passed into the hands of Universal and especially Michel Gondry, who called it «something personal».

At the time of the 2017 production, Pharrell's publicist had stated that the musical artist had been very involved in the production, which suggests to us that he will be involved now as well. That is, of course, if the film does not get trapped in what they call "development hell" in Hollywood, or that very long pre-production and organization phase that sometimes leads to a film being in limbo for decades. This should not be the case with Atlantis, which is precisely due to go into production in July, except that for the past month the Writer's Guild of America screenwriters' strike has stalled the progress of almost every film and TV production in America, creating damage to the entertainment industry potently more disastrous than the famous 100-day strike between 2007 and 2008 that semi-destroyed two TV seasons leading to the cancellation of numerous TV series.