Mark Schaffel claims that MJ worked on unreleased music for the film
Charly and the Chocolate Factory. It has already happened that MJ has done music for a film which is ultimately not made with him. I put you the passage from Mike Smallcombe's book in "Making Michael":
Mark Schaffel claims that Michael stopped working on the Invincible album in 2000 to secretly work in a small Los Angeles studio on the soundtrack for the remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory — he wanted a starring role in the film. “He thought it was the perfect role for him and wanted to use the soundtrack to bribe distributors to get the role.”
Schaffel attended several meetings with the film's distributors, but they were only interested in the soundtrack, not wanting Michael in the role; in the end it went to Johnny Depp.
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The Edgar Alan Poe film project with supposedly unpublished music also dates from the same period, from 2000. An unpublished title with Walter Afanasieff is indicated in the ASCAP directory. It is unknown if there are MJ voices.
Jackson called the storyline "very scary", and although the film was not a musical, he planned to sing a song with lyrics based on Poe's poetry during the closing credits. Producer Pudney said Jackson told Steven Spielberg about the project, who was enthusiastic and suggested several potential directors, including Tim Burton.
Given Edgar Allan Poe’s fear of premature burial, he might’ve been “rolling over in his grave” at the prospect of being portrayed by Michael Jackson in 'The Nightmare of Edgar Allan Poe'.
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In the ASCAP repertoire, there is also another unreleased title, "
The World Is No Church", with Walter Afanasieff and Andrea Martin (was an American R&B singer-songwriter and producer). I haven't found any concrete information if the song has vocals. Walter Afanasieff's only song released to date with MJ is Fall Again, which remained incomplete vocally.
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