From there, Wētā built chimp Robbie using Williams' own eyes (and various hairstyles) as inspiration. And the final touch: a voice that mixes Davies' and Williams' performances. All this blends seamlessly into a powerful performance that is one of the most surprising yet riveting of the year.

Robbie Williams isn’t monkeying around in a biopic from “The Greatest Showman” director Michael Gracey. If you grew up in Britain in the ‘90s, you either loved or hated Robbie Williams, the pop star who rose to fame in boy band Take That before going solo.

Early reviews have confirmed that Better Man, the Robbie Williams biopic, includes a CG chimpanzee standing in for the singer.

Many of the expected conventions of music biopics are present in “Piece by Piece,” about the producer-turned-pop star Pharrell Williams, and “Better Man,” about the British singer Robbie Williams

Many of the expected conventions of music biopics are present in “Piece by Piece,” about the producer-turned-pop star Pharrell Williams, and “Better Man,” about the British singer Robbie Williams. There’s the young artist’s urge to break through,