“Michael’s life was complicated (…) As a filmmaker I try to humanize, not clean, to present the most convincing and impartial story that I can capture in a single feature film and let the audience decide how they feel following seeing it “wrote Graham King in a statement sent to the specialized magazine Variety.
A person from the production team of the film, which is directed by Antoine Fuqua, assured the same media outlet that the estate of the singer who died in 2009, had given creative freedom to King and his team to approach the idol’s life.
However, the film that has as its protagonist the nephew of the interpreter of Billie Jean Jaafar Jackson, has among its executive producers John Branca, the attorney for the singer’s estate, and his co-executor, John Mcclain.
Furthermore, according to contacts from the American publication, there is always a member of the Jackson family on the set of the film.
Likewise, director Dan Reed, who presented the documentary in 2019 Leaving Neverlandclaimed that he had read a draft of the film’s script and called it “surprisingly false,” according to Variety.
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“Jackson is only seen taking care of children with childhood cancer, dancing with a girl in a wheelchair, tucking in several small children, most of them his nephews, at sleepovers,” the director said.
In Leaving NeverlandReed addressed the cases of two alleged victims of the singer, who in 2005 was found not guilty of sexually abusing a minor under 13 years of age.
In 1993, Jackson had also been investigated for a similar crime, but the case was settled out of court.
Michael It began filming in January of this year and is expected to premiere in April 2025.
Jackson died on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50 due to cardiorespiratory arrest for which Conrad Murray, the artist’s doctor, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.
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