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Inside the ā€˜Michaelā€™ Overhaul: $15 Million Reshoots, Removing Child Abuse Allegations and Whatā€™s in Store for Sequels

'Michael' underwent reshoots that cost $10 million or more in order to scrap an original ending that included the child abuse allegations against him.
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Interesting, now we have an idea as to how Part 2 is gonna be like
King hopes to turn ā€œMichaelā€ into a two-part story. Lionsgate and Universal (which is overseeing international distribution) believe thereā€™s enough material for at least one more movie. The studios suggest roughly 30% of the material that was jettisoned from ā€œMichaelā€ could be reconstituted for potential sequels. Itā€™s unclear how future films would handle the legal battles and abuse allegations that consumed much of Jacksonā€™s final years. King has told the studios he would focus on the singerā€™s later albums, including 1991ā€™s ā€œDangerousā€ and 2001ā€™s ā€œInvincible,ā€ the purchase and construction of Neverland Ranch, as well as ā€œhis love of animals.ā€
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AlwaysThere said:
Absolute incompetence on the part of whatever legal team was responsible here.
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AlwaysThere said:
Genuinely shocked that the whole ā€œthey had to re-film the last third of the movie because somehow nobody bothered to look at the Chandler settlementā€ rumor was true. Absolute incompetence on the part of whatever legal team was responsible here.
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The incompetence of the Estate was somewhat funny before, but now it's actually becoming damaging. Not good at all.
 
There goes the hope the movie has just been split into 2 parts and most of the footage could somehow still be shown and used if the 30 percent is based on real information.

Now please prove us all wrong and make a better 2 part movie than it was originally envisioned with the 1 movie cut, and include the allegations. Couldnt they just sell it as the trial from 2005 and combine the accusations of all accusers into 1. That would get the important facts out, new fans can still read up how it really was in detail.
 
This is interesting:

"King hopes to turn ā€œMichaelā€ into a two-part story. Lionsgate and Universal (which is overseeing international distribution) believe thereā€™s enough material for at least one more movie. The studios suggest roughly 30% of the material that was jettisoned from ā€œMichaelā€ could be reconstituted for potential sequels."
 
They bought the rights to the Cascios' life story... couldn't they reach out to Jordan and June and see if they would be interested in selling the rights to their story? Maybe they ran out of money by now, who knows... And it's not like their story would make either one of them look bad, since they can blame it all on Evan.
 
AlwaysThere said:
Genuinely shocked that the whole ā€œthey had to re-film the last third of the movie because somehow nobody bothered to look at the Chandler settlementā€ rumor was true. Absolute incompetence on the part of whatever legal team was responsible here.
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I don't believe they just forgot. Branca was probably there when the godforsaken settlement was signed. Really shady story.
 
applešŸŽ said:
I don't believe they just forgot. Branca was probably there when the godforsaken settlement was signed. Really shady story.
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One wonders why they didn't just use the argument that since Michael, Evan Chandler, Johnnie Cochran and Howard Weitzman are dead, that condition no longer is valid, and that "it only pertains if the parties are all alive." That they decide, "Let's go for it" and just push it out there.

Of course some might say, "The Estate can't argue that and simultaneously argue that HBO's nondisparagement clause still holds decades later, they'll be accused of having it both ways." Well, legalese often allows you to have it both ways all the time.

Cutting the scenes surely isn't to please the critics. They would've been angry with the showing of Michael as innocent. Now they'll be just as angry that the movie ends at the Bad era and "completely ignores the actual story."

If the two-movie idea comes to pass, would they even try to go there again, or simply pretend nothing happened? If they pretend, can HIStory even be mentioned at all?
 
Toxic34 said:
If the two-movie idea comes to pass, would they even try to go there again, or simply pretend nothing happened? If they pretend, can HIStory even be mentioned at all?
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The article mentions they wanted to cover the Dangerous and Invincible era in the possible 2nd movie. No HIStory, so yeah, it seems like they won't try.
 
Blues_Away2023 said:
I see the media are all trying their best to try and sabotage the film already. Mentioning that the film ends at the Bad tour, instead of addressing the allegations, literally using those words.

Itā€™s well known that they had to scrap that section , they wanted to address it but fucked up.
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I think they needed to make sure to announce Part II soon, even before the movie is released. So people donā€™t think the allegations will be completely ā€œforgottenā€.
 
Blues_Away2023 said:
I see the media are all trying their best to try and sabotage the film already. Mentioning that the film ends at the Bad tour, instead of addressing the allegations, literally using those words.

Itā€™s well known that they had to scrap that section , they wanted to address it but fucked up.
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Variety, owned by Penske Media Group, so no surprises at all
 
SmoothCriminal1984 said:
They gotta add the allegations its apart of mjs life!
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So is Janet and she isn't in. This movie was always going to be just a way for everyone to rake in a lot of money easily. Adding the allegations was always too risky. Actually I was pleasantly surprised when I learned they were shooting the police scenes because I didn't expect them to mention the allegations.

Now all the movie got to do is show his human side, which is something people always forget, and I think we can work with that. He's been way too dehumanized.
 
Jackears said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/2041879246201635319
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I think that was a great response from the CEO, regarding the "controversial" part.

Part II seems very close to happening. It would really be a surprise if this movie does not get to 700 million, I think.
And with that happening, I think it's like 99% sure we will have the allegations addressed one way or another (changing names, 2005 trial, etc) on the second movie. Otherwise, it would be a really strange film. haha
 
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