Not every LEGO element in Piece by Piece actually exists – but they could

Pharrell Williams’ LEGO biopic has premiered, documenting the musician’s life in LEGO bricks that might not all exist – but the creators made sure that they technically could.

Piece by Piece is out in the world and, although it’s not performing that well at the box office, at least we can celebrate that there is some type of LEGO movie currently in theatres. We’d already spotted that the movie’s minifigure generator included LEGO elements that don’t exist and now the film’s director Morgan Neville has confirmed that there are more pieces in the film that aren’t a part of the LEGO system while speaking to the Prestige Junkie podcast.

That doesn’t mean, however, that the movie creators created impossible elements. Neville and the rest of the team worked closely with the LEGO Group to ensure that, even if certain pieces didn’t technically exist, they would fit in with other LEGO bricks, even done to the safety requirements that every LEGO element needs to meet.

“They said, ‘Sorry, these braids are too narrow,'” Neville said while discussing the original character design for Pusha T, an interviewee in the movie. “‘They could break off and a child could choke.’ We said, ‘Yeah, but it’s a movie.’

“We ended up actually talking to the manufacturing people about how many micrometers wide a LEGO braid would have to be not to break off.”

That attention to detail means that you can likely expect every LEGO piece you see in the movie to be technically possible – even if it doesn’t exist right now and probably never will in some cases.

Piece by Piece is available to watch now in the United States and Canada, with staggered international releases coming up in November.

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