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"Michael", a biopic about Michael Jackson, is officially happening.

"Coming back to reshoot and do new scenes to make up for all the scenes that they had to cut out"
"Some of them reached out to clarify... they're just doing reshoots and then some new scenes to make up for all that lost footage."

That was one of my fears; bad enough to change the director's original vision, I also hope this doesn't relate to replacing/minimizing the coverage of the allegations... was really hoping these reshoots were just additional scenes to fill up a 2-film structure and/or runtime.
 
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If all the rumours are true then this is a significant change to the plot.

It's beyond me how the Estate allowed such a colossal oversight with so much money involved. Money is usually their only language.
 
innuendo141 said:
It's beyond me how the Estate allowed such a colossal oversight with so much money involved. Money is usually their only language.
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Well, I guess money doesn't matter as long the biopic portrays Branca as the indispensable guy, who's pulled alĺ the strings throughout MJ's career 😄
 
innuendo141 said:
If all the rumours are true then this is a significant change to the plot.

It's beyond me how the Estate allowed such a colossal oversight with so much money involved. Money is usually their only language.
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Feels like this is slowly declining into a mess, Lionsgate will run out of patience, How has this happened? All this change after such a positive start, so sick of all the let downs now. It's getting beyond embarrassment
 
SmoothGangsta said:
they are making this into a generic film.
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Did you see the Queen biopic? Or the Elton John one? The Michael movie will be the "Michael Jackson" version of that. That's what the studio and the Estate want, and it's what the casual audience expects. Such movies are made to make massive amounts of money, which means delivering to the audience the product that it wants. Biopics are big-budget, "prestige" versions of the made-for-TV biographical films that used to get made.
 
CodaBroda said:
"Coming back to reshoot and do new scenes to make up for all the scenes that they had to cut out"
"Some of them reached out to clarify... they're just doing reshoots and then some new scenes to make up for all that lost footage."

That was one of my fears; bad enough to change the director's original vision, I also hope this doesn't relate to replacing/minimizing the coverage of the allegations... was really hoping these reshoots were just additional scenes to fill up a 2-film structure and/or runtime.
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I’m revisiting this thought, and it could be possible that they need to film more scenes this summer to fill up a “Part 1” to be able to push the allegations to “Part 2”; the fact that they were recently shooting at Carolwood Dr. doesn’t necessarily support that, but it’s still possible if this is just one of the later scenes they needed for “Part 2”. (More copium…)

I’m speculating on speculation at this point, guess we’ll see
 
kreen said:
Did you see the Queen biopic? Or the Elton John one? The Michael movie will be the "Michael Jackson" version of that. That's what the studio and the Estate want, and it's what the casual audience expects. Such movies are made to make massive amounts of money, which means delivering to the audience the product that it wants. Biopics are big-budget, "prestige" versions of the made-for-TV biographical films that used to get made.
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Obviously I did yeah. This film was being marketed as the opposite of that up until this point.
 
SmoothGangsta said:
Obviously I did yeah. This film was being marketed as the opposite of that up until this point.
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The MJ Cirque du Soleil show is the basic Cirque template with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The MJ Broadway show is the basic musical Broadway play with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The movie will be the same. Endless product.
 
kreen said:
The MJ Cirque du Soleil show is the basic Cirque template with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The MJ Broadway show is the basic musical Broadway play with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The movie will be the same. Endless product.
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Thanks for bringing up 2 totally unrelated things that don't address what I said to prove your point. Anyway.
 
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kreen said:
The MJ Cirque du Soleil show is the basic Cirque template with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The MJ Broadway show is the basic musical Broadway play with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The movie will be the same. Endless product.
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Good musical artist biopics can exist; I think we’re just having recency bias. The original direction of this film potentially made the investors uncomfortable enough to start removing scenes. There are signs that there were some real truth-telling and filmmaking happening beyond a musical fluff piece.
 
CodaBroda said:
Good musical artist biopics can exist; I think we’re just having recency bias. The original direction of this film potentially made the investors uncomfortable enough to start removing scenes. There are signs that there were some real truth-telling and filmmaking happening beyond a musical fluff piece.
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What source do we have on removing scenes?
 
Jeff Sneider’s most recent interview; granted, we don’t know if the sources working on the production are really in the know, but we can mostly assume since it’s multiple sources within production. Presumably, the scenes about the allegations were removed if previous rumors are to be believed:

"Coming back to reshoot and do new scenes to make up for all the scenes that they had to cut out"
"Some of them reached out to clarify... they're just doing reshoots and then some new scenes to make up for all that lost footage."
 
CodaBroda said:
Jeff Sneider’s most recent interview; granted, we don’t know if the sources working on the production are really in the know, but we can mostly assume since it’s multiple sources within production. Presumably, the scenes about the allegations were removed if previous rumors are to be believed:

"Coming back to reshoot and do new scenes to make up for all the scenes that they had to cut out"
"Some of them reached out to clarify... they're just doing reshoots and then some new scenes to make up for all that lost footage."
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In that case it sounds more like it might be a compelling alternative or a streamlining of ideas. No need to assume the worst, again...
 
Guys, what third film are you talking about, lol?

Michael Prince already confirmed, that movie
probably will end before History. And director said, that movie will include first allegations case. So first movie certainly can't end BEFORE Dangerous.

So 1993-2009 events will definitely be covered in 2 movie, buts it's IMPOSSIBLE to split these events into 2 movies lol. Not enough plot for 3 part, comprende?

So speculation about trilogy is total absurd
 
Masonh said:
Guys, what third film are you talking about, lol?

Michael Prince already confirmed, that movie
probably will end before History. And director said, that movie will include first allegations case. So first movie certainly can't end BEFORE Dangerous.

So 1993-2009 events will definitely be covered in 2 movie, buts it's IMPOSSIBLE to split these events into 2 movies lol. Not enough plot for 3 part, comprende?

So speculation about trilogy is total absurd
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Read more carefully inbetween the lines and you might see it was meant with irony.
 
CodaBroda said:
[...] the fact that they were recently shooting at Carolwood Dr. doesn’t necessarily support that
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Has that been confirmed, though? I mean, that the filming was definitely linked to the biopic? Bc the thing about those images from Carolwood Dr. is ... I didn't see loads of other stuff being posted about it. Last year, any time there was activity on location lots of different people would post (or re-post) the same stuff and would track whatever activity they could catch throughout the day.

When they filmed at Hayvenhurst last year people posted lots of stuff like this Film LA 'notice of filming' - and those notices usually get posted in advance of when the filming is going to start. I don't know why else there would be a film crew in that location (some people online are speculating it might be yet another doc but who knows?) but it just seemed weird to me that a film crew suddenly popped up and yet no-one found or posted this type of thing 👇

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CodaBroda said:
I’m speculating on speculation at this point, guess we’ll see
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I think I'm speculating on thin air atp but it still seems a bit weird to me, this whole Carolwood thing. Although it could just be resistance on my part. The idea of any filming in that location ... :cry:
 
I don't think that Michael Prince comment should be considered the best source of info here since it was posted in May 2024 while at the same time Graham King, the producer himself said at CinemaCon they'd be covering the This Is It rehearsals. I think they always intended for the biopic to cover his whole life.
 
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The „rumors“ was all true with the allegation Parts
 
is it so difficult to make an official announcement about where we currently stand guys Cmon we have may!!
 
Hot_Street said:
It is unbelievable what a devastating impact these allegations still have three decades later.
I still hope that the film will finally bring the truth to light and that the whole world will learn about it.
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Guys, lets be realistic. Movie will not tell 100% truth about Michael Jackson. Because some of the truth of Michael's life people will never understand.

We already know, that probably morphine and demorol will be replaced with basic sleeping pills. And I bet they are not going explain, that Michael went through only nose surgeries due to lupus. They will just say about vitiligo and that Michael had plastic surgeries on his face due to father's abuse. There won't be specific information. And there probably won't be mentioning Michael, talking with mannequins, Michael, calling himself a lizard and Michael, showing Bigi from the balcony.

Remember, this movie is being created for casual average people. That's the main audience, it's not for fans.
 
kreen said:
The MJ Cirque du Soleil show is the basic Cirque template with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The MJ Broadway show is the basic musical Broadway play with the "Michael Jackson" skin added.

The movie will be the same. Endless product.
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This movie is for those who know thriller and billie Jean and very little else…it’s not for us sadly.

This ain’t gonna be some groundbreaking movie where we find out new revelations about Michael, it will be a Wikipedia special.
 
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