Themidwestcowboy;4304676 said:
I don't really think we understand how much michael wanted to be an actor and produce films. Michael was always, and i mean always attached to various movies but almost always had to back out of them because of his commitment to his music, tours, rehearsals, studio time, etc. He never really had the opportunity to go all in with movies except for the The Wiz.
I don't think that was the reason. He wanted to get into movies / the movie business so badly, that he probably would have adjusted his music shedules around it.
Him trying to get into the film business is a whole complex story that got him into a lot of trouble. The small club of powerful Hollywood people never took him serious, so all the projects he got offered or started working on never went anywhere. This was even before the 1993 accusations.
There are some lengthy but very interesting articles about his late 80s~early 90s movie projects and what went on behind scenes here:
https://vindicatemj.wordpress.com/category/project-m-for-michael-jackson/
(start reading the articles from bottom up)
As Taj Jackson told it several times, Michael was mostly talking about MAKING / directing movies in the later years.
mj_frenzy;4304668 said:
Also, during his final years, Michael Jackson was losing interest in creating and recording new music for new albums because he was still being haunted by the utter disaster of his latest ‘Invincible’ album.
Also, it's only your interpretation that you're trying to sell as fact.
In fact we all know that he continued to create and record new music up until his final days. An album-long list of songs he wanted to finish was found in his room. There was some sort of report that he rather wanted to release singles instead of a new album (along the This Is It concerts)... but that alone would not have made much sense commercially. Regarding releases, albums are always where the money is. That's also why Sony stretched the BOTDF EP into album format.
The Invincible "disaster" had its specific reasons at the time, which he surely was aware of. (Formostly the trouble with Sony, and then also 9/11, his health at the time, 3 small kids to raise etc.) So if things had changed to the "better" at a later point, noone knows what he would have done. Movies aside, I think if he was still alive, we would have at least one more pop album by now.