A proposed musical based on Pharell's life growing up in Virginia will not be released, he announced this week.

The musical biopic on Pharrell Williams' life as a child might never see the light of day. He has confirmed that the film has been scrapped.

Pharrell Williams' movie musical has been scrapped after a "unanimous agreement" that the film did not live up to its developed concept."

This is per Variety, which revealed that the already-shot film has now been scrapped, after “unanimous agreement from producers and Gondry that the film did not live up to its developed conceit.” Universal will reportedly eat $20 million in losses on money already spent on the movie,

A Pharrell Williams biopic directed by Michel Gondry has been permanently shelved by Universal, just three months before the film’s May 9 release.

Williams and Gondry in a joint statement to IndieWire said that they mutually agreed they "can't deliver this film," and Variety, which first reported the news, added that it will

"Golden," a movie musical based on Pharrell Williams' childhood, will not see the light of day after filmmakers hit creative impasse.

Did you know that Pharrell Williams had another biopic planned? Following his Lego movie Piece by Piece last year, Pharrell was planning a live-action musical biopic under Universal called Golden. Originally titled Atlantis,

This is no reflection on the hundreds of people in Virginia who worked tirelessly on this project' — Andy Edmunds