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

IhateTheMedia said:
Michael has a 150,000,000 production budget alone not taking into account the massive marketing budget
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I hope its long but too long runtime might turn the general audience away when they hear about it. I think they want as big audience as possible. My prediction is 2 hours 25 minutes.
 
The "rule of thumb" in productions is that the number of pages equals the number of minutes in length (approx of course). So 180 pages - 3 hrs. Which was pretty much already confirmed from a number of different sources.
 
Yeah, so my guess is the film will be three hours, but there will be lots of additional scenes primarily made for fans that will be added after it leaves Theatres which put the runtime at 4 hours. The question however is, what stuff is getting cut? 3+ Hours basically guarantees life to death
Bogdan said:
The "rule of thumb" in productions is that the number of pages equals the number of minutes in length (approx of course). So 180 pages - 3 hrs. Which was pretty much already confirmed from a number of different sources.
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Joseph stated that the adult actors will play their roles until the "end of their lives", confirming that the film will cover Michael Jackson's entire career.
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The actor agreed with the presenter's statement that "Hollywood will not waste a biopic about Michael Jackson", highlighting that the film's marketing and timeline will be like a "wrench", that is, fundamental to facilitate access.
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The actor highlighted Graham King's total dedication during filming, following every detail. This corroborates previous information from Michael Jackson's estate about the thorough research carried out by King over the years to reach his own conclusion about Michael Jackson's innocence.
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The actor also mentioned that, initially, when he found out about his role, he imagined that the biopic would follow a different path and would not delve into Michael's life, as many pseudo-journalists and haters have claimed. However, throughout the filming, he realized how deep and intimate the narrative explored in the film would be, describing it as "a deep dive into Michael".
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The actors who play Michael Jackson's brothers, both as children and adults, rehearsed for two months with Rich and Tone, choreographers hired by Michael Jackson's estate to ensure authenticity for projects like MJ The Musical and the biopic.
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As previously announced, the actor confirmed that filming should have been completed earlier. However, new scenes were added to the script, which already had 180 pages in its initial version, resulting in filming being completed in June due to the script being longer than in the initial cut.
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Jaafar Jackson began filming his scenes in mid-January, while the actors playing his brothers were still in rehearsal.
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Although the actor joked that the film will be 4 hours long, don't take this as a confirmed fact. He was joking at the time about his enthusiasm and stated in his own words that he "doesn't know what the final cut will be like."
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This means any claim you read from the media proclaiming the film will end in 1993 is BS, as we expected.
 
Skylover said:
Jeff Sneider has a follow-up to the "pucknews" article but it's behind a paywall:
www.theinsneider.com

The Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni Feud Shines a Light on the Ongoing Abuse of... the Coveted P.G.A. Mark

Plus, a follow-up to Puck's report about Lionsgate's Michael Jackson movie, and the crew's nickname for its director, Antoine Fuqua.
www.theinsneider.com www.theinsneider.com
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In the previous paragraph, it says "Tonight's newsletter takes a look at..." So is it really behind the paywall or is it in the newsletter, meaning you would just have to subscribe to the newsletter?
 
Mister_Jay_Tee said:
The estate likely is waiting on a trailer to drop. Get the most attention that way and stifle these rumors that aren't really spreading anyway.

Lies run sprints. The truth runs marathons.

We'll see what happens soon.
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This should be the main idea of the movie... This sentence should be shown across the whole screen at the beginning of the movie. The Chandlers should be in the movie and the movie should by no means shy away from telling the worls Michael's side of the story.
 
FMJP said:
very off topic here, but all this talk about the film ending in 94 has me thinking

What if they're hoping to make this a multi-film situation..

Perhaps the film is going to end with: "Michael Jackson will return in: Michael II" or something along those lines.

Jokes aside, I don't remember where I heard this or if I'm making this up entirely but I feel like I remember a while ago hearing that they wanted to make two films out of MJ's story. Basing this idea of off the script leaks, this film would theoretically be part one and it leads up to 1993/4, then part two would then be 95-09. That would IMO be the better option if they want to really tell his story without sanitizing anything. But that would beg the question of: does the public want to sit through two movies about MJ? All that said: a sequel would be entirely contingent on the reviews of the first film if that was what they had in mind.

If we continue with this theory, the film makers would get two films that are able to delve into Michael's life and give the important off-stage moments the time they deserve alongside his career accomplishments, interesting to think about to say the least but still entirely hearsay.


Fr tho, this is entirely a tangent that based off something I read randomly like a year ago, so don't read into this too heavy. Just an idea.
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This movie is for commercial purposes, and cleaning up MJ’s reputation.
It is a not a documentary that will be aiming to be fully comprehensive of MJ’s life and historical accuracy.

To that end, it made sense to end in 1994 as that will capture his rise to stardom and glory years.
I doubt there will be much demand from the public to view Michael’s life after 1994, as those subsequent years are not fond ones for the wider public and their relationship with MJ - even if from a character lens , MJ actually got more interesting in some ways.

Now, however, if they want to cover the allegations, they will probably have to go with the 2005 trial. That would be a bum note to end on, so perhaps they will stretch it out all the way to the O2 press conference for This Is It?

Non objective fans may think otherwise, but the last twenty odd years of MJ’s life was not pretty, and it would be a depressing story to tell…..and a hard sell. It was the same with the Queen biopic, they ended on a high of the band’s performance at Live Aid in 1985, and avoided Freddy’s dying years.

This is certainly a very difficult situation for the Estate and producers.
 
IhateTheMedia said:
Michael has a 150,000,000 production budget alone not taking into account the massive marketing budget
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More so why they can not afford to make it too long}
Unless it is a guaranteed box office hit, films will shy away from being too long as it is detrimental to screen/ticket sales. Who knows hat their box expectations are? I have not got a clue how this film fill will do…
 
Moviefan2k4 said:
I personally doubt all of this is true, since Evan Chandler killed himself the same year that Michael passed, and Jordan's mother June had been married to a man named Dave Schwartz even before they met Michael. As for Jordan himself, he said for many years that Michael never touched him, and he was so hurt by both his parents' roles in the scandal that he emancipated himself from them. During the 2005 trial, Jordan released a statement saying that he'd legally fight any attempt that forced him to testify against Michael, and lead defense attorney Tom Mesereau also said he had witnesses who knew Jordan, that were prepared to co-operate if Jordan wound up telling his story. After his father's death, Jordan pretty much disappeared, to the point that his mother and sister couldn't even reach him. Accusatory director Dan Reed also tried tracking him down to support Wade Robson & James Safechuck's allegations, with no such luck. So if anyone is behind this new lawsuit, I'd have to imagine it would be June or Dave Schwartz - they're the only ones with a motive.
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Um, what?!?

Care to back up your claim where you say “Jordan himself said for many years that Michael never touched him”….
 
etoile 37 said:
In the previous paragraph, it says "Tonight's newsletter takes a look at..." So is it really behind the paywall or is it in the newsletter, meaning you would just have to subscribe to the newsletter?
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I put my email in and see if I receive anything I guess. Seems it was from last night though so I doubt it.
 
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Whilst there will be plenty of material to make a film that’s about 9 hours long , it makes little sense from a commercial point of view.

You can have a great film but if the runtime is too long it can take a nose dive. Rather than coming away with the feeling that the film was amazing and wanting more, you could easily be left feeling that while it was good , it was far too long and it’s a one time watch only.

Fuqua is also no Martin Scorsese so I’d hate for the film to be a real slog.

Michael’s life was anything but boring however a film about him can certainly be!

I’d be fine with a 3 hour film but it has to be 3 hours of quality filmmaking and story. I do expect this film to be around the 2.45 mark personally.
 
www.filmstarts.de

150 Millionen Dollar teurer Blockbuster über Michael Jackson: Muss ein Teil des Films in die Mülltonne?

Einer der besonders erwarteten Filme 2025 ist „Michael“ – ein 150 Millionen Dollar teures Biopic über „King Of Pop“ Michael Jackson. Doch laut einem Medienbericht steht das eigentlich abgedrehte Werk von einem gewaltigen Problem.
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in Germany all over the news they saying that the Story is Real and the Estate will care about the money for the new scenes and script.....
 
Now that we are talking about the allegations I always wondered about the 'KKK': Michael mentions them in D.S. and Katherine mentioned something about Sneddon's son being previously involved with the KKK. Anyone knows more about this??
 
Harun said:
www.filmstarts.de

150 Millionen Dollar teurer Blockbuster über Michael Jackson: Muss ein Teil des Films in die Mülltonne?

Einer der besonders erwarteten Filme 2025 ist „Michael“ – ein 150 Millionen Dollar teures Biopic über „King Of Pop“ Michael Jackson. Doch laut einem Medienbericht steht das eigentlich abgedrehte Werk von einem gewaltigen Problem.
www.filmstarts.de www.filmstarts.de

in Germany all over the news they saying that the Story is Real and the Estate will care about the money for the new scenes and script.....
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Well surely the german media knows best
 
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