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

Mister_Jay_Tee said:
I don't know what you want me to say. It's still a biopic, not some hero's journey. It doesn't need to be a "happy ending" because what about Michaels life is that? It's bittersweet. It should make people feel awful, that they've vilified a good man with so many ailments plaguing him who still achieved so much his entire life. Maybe people deserve to have to feel bad and think, instead of getting to enjoy a free ride through art that they "separate from the artist". They're one and the same, truly.
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I would like the movie to end with Murray pressing the record button on his phone before Michael says as his final lines what he said on that recorded tape:

Michael: I'm taking that money, I'm building a children - children's hospital, the biggest in the world, Michael Jackson's Children Hospital. Gonna have a movie theater, game room. Children are depressed. The - in those hospitals, no game room, no movie theater. They're sick because they're depressed. Their mind is depressing them. I want to give them that. I care about them, them angels. God wants me to do it. God wants me to do it. I'm gonna do it, Conrad. Don't have enough hope, no more hope. That's the next generation that's gonna save our planet, starting with - we'll talk about it. United States, Europe, Prague, my babies. They walk around with no mother. They drop them, they leave - a psychological degradation of that. They reach out to me - please take me with you. I want to do that for them. I'm gonna do that for them. That will be remembered more than my performances. My performances will be up there helping my children and always be my dream. I love them. I love them because I didn't have a childhood. I had no childhood. I feel their pain. I feel their hurt. I can deal with it. Heal the World, We Are the World, Will You Be There, The Lost Children. These are the songs I've written because I hurt, you know. I hurt.
Murray: You okay?
Michael: I am asleep.

Then have them play the bridge of Xscape while Michael falls peacefully asleep: When I go, this problem world won't bother me no more

And end the movie as thousands of fans gather around the hospital crying.

Beano Wild said:
be prepared for liberties to be taken with the timeline, i feel certain things might be placed out of order.
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Personally, I would prefer a chronological order. Michael's life was complicated enough as it is, jumping back and forth from the past to the future would just make it harder for the viewer to follow the storyline. There's something very beautiful about following someone's life story from its beginning to its end. It almost makes you feel as if you know the person, it makes that person more real.
 
What if they first show a scene from his allegedly strange adult life and then explain it with a scene from his childhood?
 
etoile 37 said:
I would like the movie to end with Murray pressing the record button on his phone before Michael says as his final lines what he said on that recorded tape:

Michael: I'm taking that money, I'm building a children - children's hospital, the biggest in the world, Michael Jackson's Children Hospital. Gonna have a movie theater, game room. Children are depressed. The - in those hospitals, no game room, no movie theater. They're sick because they're depressed. Their mind is depressing them. I want to give them that. I care about them, them angels. God wants me to do it. God wants me to do it. I'm gonna do it, Conrad. Don't have enough hope, no more hope. That's the next generation that's gonna save our planet, starting with - we'll talk about it. United States, Europe, Prague, my babies. They walk around with no mother. They drop them, they leave - a psychological degradation of that. They reach out to me - please take me with you. I want to do that for them. I'm gonna do that for them. That will be remembered more than my performances. My performances will be up there helping my children and always be my dream. I love them. I love them because I didn't have a childhood. I had no childhood. I feel their pain. I feel their hurt. I can deal with it. Heal the World, We Are the World, Will You Be There, The Lost Children. These are the songs I've written because I hurt, you know. I hurt.
Murray: You okay?
Michael: I am asleep.

Then have them play the bridge of Xscape while Michael falls peacefully asleep: When I go, this problem world won't bother me no more

And end the movie as thousands of fans gather around the hospital crying.


Personally, I would prefer a chronological order. Michael's life was complicated enough as it is, jumping back and forth from the past to the future would just make it harder for the viewer to follow the storyline. There's something very beautiful about following someone's life story from its beginning to its end. It almost makes you feel as if you know the person, it makes that person more real.
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Wow that would be absolutely gut wrenching and IMO an awesome ending to the movie. Showing him drugged up and 'falling asleep' while Murray is recording him and MJ saying these words.

Instead of Xscape though, I would go with something like 'For All Time' or 'Best Of Joy' while the crowds gather around the hospital, before a montage of his life.
 
nextbigthing56 said:
while the crowds gather around the hospital, before a montage of his life.
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Yes, a montage of his life starting from when he was little and going through all the big parts of his life in chronological order with footage of Michael where he looks beautiful, strong and happy. Show footage from his best performances and music videos, footage of him just being playful (water gun fights, food fights, etc), footage of him being mobbed and giving the best hugs to his adoring fans, excerpts from the Evan Chandler tapes, the best footage from This Is It. Then end it with Paris speaking at the memorial, followed with that Michael quote: "If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."
Hot_Street said:
What if they first show a scene from his allegedly strange adult life and then explain it with a scene from his childhood?
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I think it's harder for the viewer to feel sympathy for the character when things are done in reverse. When you do it in chronological order, it builds up to that point, so when the viewer sees it, he's feeling the same emotions the character is feeling.
 
SmoothCriminal1995 said:
Is Neverland part of the biopic?

If it is, I imagine they'll want to make as much use of it as possible
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I believe it is, there was pictures from not long ago showing that Neverland was being restored , no doubt for the movie.

It's pretty cool that they will be using both Neverland and Hayvenhurst so it's as authentic as possible.

I wonder if the likes of Michael Bush will be helping out with the wardrobe.
 
alexbism said:
Not everyone is a die hard fan of Queen/Freddie Mercury and yet Bohemain Rhapsody was a hit, and Michael is more Popular than Queen and his Character is one of the most controversial in Pop Culture ever so I'm sure many people will be curious to see a movie about his life, whether they like him or not.
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I just dont want to hear haters in the cinema booing him and ruining the experince
 
They'll definitely end the movie on a high note. I'm really not expecting this film to be as deep as some others seem to be.

Would love to be wrong about that, although I also don't think ending it with MJ dying is something they will or even necessarily should do.
 
I think the movie will be deep everything that happened in mjs life was deep
 
SmoothGangsta said:
They'll definitely end the movie on a high note. I'm really not expecting this film to be as deep as some others seem to be.

Would love to be wrong about that, although I also don't think ending it with MJ dying is something they will or even necessarily should do.
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This exactly how I feel mate. I think some fans will be disappointed when it skips over a lot of Mike's life and career.
It's a biopic not a documentary
 
I think Joe was a cruel man , the most saddest aspect about Michael's death was the fact that a few days after his death he was walking around the red carpet at the BET awards doing promotion.

Your son has just died you fool.

 
etoile 37 said:
Michael: I'm taking that money, I'm building a children - children's hospital, the biggest in the world, Michael Jackson's Children Hospital. Gonna have a movie theater, game room. Children are depressed. The - in those hospitals, no game room, no movie theater. They're sick because they're depressed. Their mind is depressing them. I want to give them that. I care about them, them angels. God wants me to do it. God wants me to do it. I'm gonna do it, Conrad. Don't have enough hope, no more hope. That's the next generation that's gonna save our planet, starting with - we'll talk about it. United States, Europe, Prague, my babies. They walk around with no mother. They drop them, they leave - a psychological degradation of that. They reach out to me - please take me with you. I want to do that for them. I'm gonna do that for them. That will be remembered more than my performances. My performances will be up there helping my children and always be my dream. I love them. I love them because I didn't have a childhood. I had no childhood. I feel their pain. I feel their hurt. I can deal with it. Heal the World, We Are the World, Will You Be There, The Lost Children. These are the songs I've written because I hurt, you know. I hurt.
Murray: You okay?
Michael: I am asleep.

Then have them play the bridge of Xscape while Michael falls peacefully asleep: When I go, this problem world won't bother me no more

And end the movie as thousands of fans gather around the hospital crying.
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Yeah, that's way too dramatic for me personally.
 
I said the 2007 Ebony Photoshoot and I'm sticking with that. That was the last professional high note MJ had, that and Thriller 25.

And His quote about binding his soul to his work is the perfect closer quote. Right along with Best Of Joy.
 
Take it for what it's worth but on the podcast 'Pod of Thunder' Chris Jericho (singer/pro wrestler) stated that he had been talking to someone who was working on the biopic who had told him that the film would be covering only up to 1986/1987 "pre issues". A real shame if true.
 
nextbigthing56 said:
Take it for what it's worth but on the podcast 'Pod of Thunder' Chris Jericho (singer/pro wrestler) stated that he had been talking to someone who was working on the biopic who had told him that the film would be covering only up to 1986/1987 "pre issues". A real shame if true.
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as if everything post Bad wouldn't exist
sad
 
nextbigthing56 said:
Take it for what it's worth but on the podcast 'Pod of Thunder' Chris Jericho (singer/pro wrestler) stated that he had been talking to someone who was working on the biopic who had told him that the film would be covering only up to 1986/1987 "pre issues". A real shame if true.
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Yeah I don't believe that especially as Branca and those involved have already said that the film will cover the highs and controversies.

Not going beyond 93 for example is a cop out. We can't pretend that these moments never existed.

To me , it signals that Michael's career and respect people had for him was never the same after the allegations. That is true and one of the reasons why this film needs to be made.
 
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