The music will lift you higher than you ever imagined.
Grammy winning icon and two-time Oscar® nominee Pharrell Williams (Hidden Figures, Piece by Piece) joins forces with Oscar® winner Michel Gondry, the daring, visionary filmmaker of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep for an extraordinary musical expedition into the summer of 1977 and the Virginia Beach neighborhood inspired by the Atlantis Apartments of Williams’ childhood.
The coming-of-age cinematic event features one of the most dazzling casts ever assembled for a feature film, including SAG winner Kelvin Harrison Jr. (The Trial of the Chicago 7, Genius), six-time Grammy nominee Halle Bailey (The Little Mermaid, The Color Purple), Academy Award® winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers, Only Murders in the Building), Oscar® nominee Brian Tyree Henry (Causeway, Bullet Train), Emmy winner Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary, Miracle Workers), eight-time Grammy winner Anderson .Paak (Grown-ish, Trolls franchise), SAG winner and ten-time Grammy nominee Janelle Monáe (Hidden Figures, Moonlight), Emmy nominee Tim Meadows (Saturday Night Live, Mean Girls films), Jayson Lee (61st Street, Utopia), Jamilah Rosemond (Rustin, Fabulous Confabulation with Jamilah Rosemond), Jaboukie Young-White (C’mon, C’mon; Fantasmas) and hip-hop and R&B legend and four-time Grammy winner Missy Elliott.
Directed by Michel Gondry from a screenplay by Martin Hynes (Toy Story 4) and by Steven Levenson, the Tony award winning writer of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen and the film adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick … BOOM!, the film features new original songs by Pharrell Williams, some with lyrics by the Tony, Oscar® and Grammy winning team of Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (The Greatest Showman, La La Land).
Golden is produced by Pharrell Williams, Emmy winner Mimi Valdés (executive producer of Hidden Figures and the series Harlem) and two-time Best Picture Oscar® nominee Gil Netter (Life of Pi, The Blind Side). The film is executive produced by Matthew Hirsch, Raffi Adlan, Jennie Lee, Shani Saxon, Michael Mayer, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
