Michael Jackson biopic pushed back again by Lionsgate, due to legal 30 year old legal settlement

Nobody's going to watch a movie about this freak.

No films about this serial paedophile who raped and destroyed the lives of an untold number of little boys.

Wacko Jacko

The US had a Savile but mostly refused to believe it.

I thought no one would watch but MJ on Bway has been a massive hit. I’m sure the movie will be too,

His family has been amazing at making money off him even in death

The entire Jackson family are soulless grifters R5.

I LOVE his shades in OPS pic.

Anyone know what line/designer they're from?

R6 I was so shocked at how they made his funeral into this big televised event. It was so bizarre.

Such a weirdo.

This movie is going to be absolutely ridiculous. “An American Dream” was good because it ended when he still looked black and normal.

Anything after is going to look like a mess.

He spent the last 20 years of his life doing nothing. Basically what Britney Spears is doing.

I heard that Katherine Jackson gets a big chunk of the MJ royalties and then disperses that money to the unemployed Jacksons. This movie is probably is probably a last-ditch effort to make some more money off of Michael Jackson's legacy before she drops dead and all the money starts going straight to MJ's kids. She's 95.

Shamon!

what r5 said. As much as people say they won't see it, they will in huge numbers. Michael Jackson's life, all these years after his death, is still a trainwreck that people will watch.

Nia Long as Katherine should be interesting. His nephew must be a pretty good actor for Lionsgate to have him carry this movie. His voice is almost identical to Michael's.

r11 the estate has made a gazillion dollars since he died. The Jacksons, especially his remaining siblings, who are all practically seniors themselves at this point, are set.

R1, unfortunately he still has a lot of fans out there. I could see this doing well but I agree with r10. I don't know why they didn't just do a "young Michael" movie and end it after the Thriller era. Then they wouldn't have to worry about sidestepping the abuse allegations

I’d watch it after it was free on streaming

What’s it rated?

Any movie on the world’s #1 pedophile is cursed. How can they even release it knowing that MJ was a known pedophile? Greedy freaks.

Can we reopen the question, never answered in a previous thread, of what shamon means?

That’s not “shamon”, he’s actually saying “chomo”. It was a cry for help!

R13, what R11 says is what I have read about MJ’s estate. He did not leave anything to his brothers and sisters. Everything went to his three children; a small portion of the estate’s income went to his mother. Of course, the estate has now made so much money that a huge sum has been paid to Katherine. For most of his life MJ gave money to his mother with the understanding that she would pass it on to his brothers, but he did not want to talk to them.

Katherine Jackson looks like Weekend At Bernie’s these days.

What is up with his hairline in OP's photo?

Michael was getting around Bahrain in bedsheets when he died. Dying was the best thing he ever did for his career

[quote]For most of his life MJ gave money to his mother with the understanding that she would pass it on to his brothers, but he did not want to talk to them.

Why didn't he want to talk to his brothers? Did they give him grief about raping little boys?

Or about becoming a white woman?

r14 we've really already seen that story already with "The Jacksons", which now over 30 years old. Do we really need another puff piece?

I think this is why the existing footage will be split. The last 20 years of his life when he was seen as a total media spectacle is honestly more interesting: the marriage to Lisa Marie (who has now also kicked the bucket), the 30th anniversary special featuring skeleton thin Whitney Houston, dangling Blanket over the hotel balcony, the Martin Bashir era, the 2005 trial, all a huge trainwreck worthy of the big screen!

Unfortunately none of that will be portrayed onscreen

R26, yeah, but they won't be honest about that stuff because it's aimed at his delusional fans

Thank you r18 I agree

I understand not wanting to talk to the other Jacksons but it seems like Jacko was the worst of them. I’ve never heard the other ones were sexual predators.

R10 That’s not true. Yall are misremembering history. I notice it happens to people when they age. Michael Jackson released an album 9 years before he died. He realized 3 albums in the 90s, all hits. Even the 2001 album was a hit, just less so by MJ standards. He also toured, inconsistently, during that time period. Are yall forgetting he died in 2009 at the age of 50?

[quote] I heard that Katherine Jackson gets a big chunk of the MJ royalties and then disperses that money to the unemployed Jacksons.

In other words, all of them.

I hope the film addresses how the family subsided for years on Baja Fresh gift cards from Janet because she and her sicko brother wouldn’t feed the rest of the family.

The Jacksons are all vile garbage.

I hope they’re lots of love scenes with his wives and girlfriends. He really knew how to woo the ladies!

Who will play Debbie Rowe in the movie? How many fat, ugly, hostile blonde actresses will want that awful role?

Not to mention the nudity required to portray her steamy nights of passion with Michael.

“These accusations are categorically false!” 🤡

[quote] I was so shocked at how they made his funeral into this big televised event. It was so bizarre.

It was interesting how he could not get arrested (heh) before his death. He was persona non grata, his fans were a bunch of freaks, his music was corny.

But in his death he was reclaimed by the black community. I think the only white people of note at his memorial were Brooke Shields and John Mayer.

^ I remember Joan Rivers calling out Brooke for wanting nothing to do with him in his later years, then making a big deal about his death

Michael described Brooke as his "girlfriend" but Brooke said they NEVER had sex (of course)

He was a joke among all the young people I know in the 90s and 2000s but wasn’t he always big in Europe?

Yep, after a certain point he was bigger in Europe than in America

Europeans often have really questionable taste in music

Druggie and a pedo

[quote]I was so shocked at how they made his funeral into this big televised event. It was so bizarre.

r8 after Princess Diana set the standard for this type of thing, it really wasn't that bizarre. He was the still the most famous person alive in 2009.

Here on Datalounge, Michael Jackson and the saga surrounding his death and surviving children consumed the site. The paywall feature just started and DL was locked up for weeks. I remember we were still in the horrible Great Recession that summer; Im sure this was used as a distraction for many people.

He was very famous but I wouldn't call him the most famous person alive in 2009. He probably had the same level of fame as Paul McCartney, Springsteen, Madonna and many other big A-listers.

I may have to go over to Lipstick Alley so I can read about all that Black money ending up in the hands of his yt children.

Katherine receives a huge amount of money from the estate, which she then dishes out to the family. LA Toya alone gets $30.000 per month from Katherine. I’m not sure what happens to Katherine’s percentage of the estate once she dies, does it transfer to the kids he bought or go to the other Jackson’s?

This is his best biopic. They’ll never compete with this.

Good post, r47.

I did not recognize Katherine Jackson. In real life, she’s more like Chef’s mom from South Park.

[quote] Michael was getting around Bahrain in bedsheets when he died.

Huh?

R46, who said that?

[quote] his music was corny.

Honey, sit down and shut up. Michael was a lot of things but his music legacy speaks for itself. It was the only thing he ever had going for him.

R45 His black nephew is starring in it so womps. The elder Jackson ms are superficially self hating but they are a family and Jehovah Witness first. Michael raised those kids as his own and thus will be treated as such until they depart. I doubt they care that they’re white. Knowing them they probably love em more. Just kidding.

R46, based on what I’ve read, it goes back to the estate.

Michael's three kids seem agreeable, and there's more than enough money to go around. They will probably still pay out an allowance to Michael's relatives.

[QUOTE] LA Toya alone gets $30.000 per month from Katherine.

Well, I am happy La Toya is being taken care of...she's always been my favorite Jackson.

La Toya seems to be the only Jackson that is a decent person. The entire rest of the family are truly awful people. Nasty, homophobic, racist and anti-Semitic. That's probably because of the Jehovah's Witness cult religion. They're all terrible people.

What did Michael Jackson and pimples have in common?

They both came all over your face when you were 12 years old.

Why did Michael Jackson go to K Mart?

Little boys' underpants were half off.

Why did Michael Jackson only date twenty eight year olds?

There were twenty of them.

[quote]Michael described Brooke as his "girlfriend" but Brooke said they NEVER had sex (of course)

Michael Jackson never had sexual relations with a woman - or an adult man, for that matter, in his life. He was only interested in little boys, the sick fuck.

Lisa Marie claimed they did have a sexual relationship when they were married. It's hard to believe, but maybe he managed with the lights off and fantasizing about little boys.

What’s the difference between JACKO and Disney films?

Disney films can still touch kids.

R51- His music was mass market rubbish.

His so called legacy?

That he was a SELF HATING black man ( all of the surgery to make himself look less black and more white) and a notorious pedophile.

Off The Wall and Thriller were great albums. After that his music really declined.

One thing that has always struck me is that someone who was not a paedophile and was innocent would never legally settle accusations of raping little boys.

Someone who was innocent would fight to the death and never give up working to clear their name and be exonerated and have their reputation restored. Then afterwards they would take steps to change their behavior to ensure they were never in a position to be accused of being a paedophile again. Especially someone as famous as Jackson. That's why I firmly believe he was a notorious paedophile and that he did it in plain sight and that a lot of people in the music and entertainment industries knew about it - especially his family and his management.

Mo Milk!!!

Michael Jackson was a textbook case of a pedophile, it was just on a very grand scale.

100% R67. There's just too much evidence. We will never know how many little boys lives he destroyed. And it's the kind of destruction that lives on throughout their entire lives and comes out in all sorts of ways such as addiction, violence, social misfunction, anger issues and even repeat behavior. Not to mention the families of the boys. Michael Jackson was disgusting. I don't think any kind of films should be made about him trying to romanticise his life.

I wonder if the movie will cover the time he dated Webster?

It’s more than a little strange that the Wikipedia entry for this movie has no casting roles listed for Lisa Marie Presley or Debbie Rowe. These were his “wives” and one was the “mother” of “his children.”

I guess even the disgusting, greedy and spaced out Jackson family knows that even in this sure-to-be sanitized biopic, convincing the public that Michael was a ladies’ man is closer to science fiction than suspension of disbelief.

Great observation r70. But its also worth noting that none of the Chandler family roles have cast listed and the article confirms that these scenes were completed.

I really don't understand the need to omit the dark sides of his life from this biopic. He's dead and everyone knows he was fucked up. They'd stand to make way more money and even receive a few accolades for telling the true story.

Why did Michael Jackson call Boyz II Men?

He thought it was a delivery service.

Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. In their own way, they each helped young boys masturbate.

How did Michael Jackson lose a marathon?

He came in a little behind.

Tatum O’Neal claimed she tried to seduce Michael in a hot tub back in the day and he wanted nothing to do with it. That scene would almost be worth the price of admission.

Almost. No one should pay to see this crap.

R75 I remember reading that, Tatum said that she touched him and he leapt out of the hot tub.

R75 - at that time, Jackson actually still looked like a Black male before he transed into a white female.

John Logan wrote this???

When you look back it’s beyond belief that his bat shit crazy fans don’t believe that he was a pedophile.

Neverland had a candy store near to the entrance, there was an amusement park with fairground rides, a petting zoo, cinema, a working train track. Everything about the place was designed to groom little boys. He even had big payout slot machines in the private corridor leading into his bedroom. There are hundreds of pictures of him with little boys, loads of accusations by little boys, huge hush money payouts to little boys. Yet there is not one single story of a woman or little girl saying that he had sex with them, there is not a single kiss and tell story by a female.

Exactly r79. Neverland was a pedophile's playground. Just look at all the shit he had there - it was totally designed to groom kids. And there was a reason why Neverland was in the middle of fucking nowhere with no neighbors around.

I don't know if Neverland was designed purely to groom children. Jackson had horrendous taste. It's possible that he thought topiary and bumper cars were the height of luxury.

Well that’s the bullshit story, that he was just a big old kid at heart. 🤮

How many grown men have a fucking amusement park in their yard?

This will be a bomb like no other, and a bad movie to boot. Lionsgate has had some serious fuck-ups in recent years optioning horrible movies and having atrocious box office results, and this will be no different. I’m surprised they haven’t put themselves out of business.

R81- His music was horrendous too.

He was only good VERY briefly from about 1969 to 1971 with the Jackson Five singing songs like ABC and I'll Be There.

No, Off The Wall and Thriller were fantastic. It went downhill after that.

[quote]This will be a bomb like no other, and a bad movie to boot.

r84 maybe, but as said already everything attached to the estate has turned to gold since he died in 2009. John Branca and John McClain are the best in the entertainment business, they never miss. It seems like they are using these legal delays to edit and reshoot everything until it's perfect. Most movies today do not get that kind of attention, but they have the power and virtually unlimited resources to do it. They will not let it get released without it being a huge money maker. The story may be sanitized some, but it will get people in the seats.

Neverland was the only thing his estate let go into decline and that was because they refused to make it a tourist attraction like Graceland. Had they made it a museum it too would bring it millions.

I don’t think people would go to Neverland.

I’d watch it if it were made by the creators of South Park

[quote]Neverland was the only thing his estate let go into decline and that was because they refused to make it a tourist attraction like Graceland. Had they made it a museum it too would bring it millions.

Neverland was created to entrap young boys so Jackson could groom and then sexually assault them R87. That's why it hasn't been turned into a museum as a tribute to his paedophilia. I guess even the rancid Jackson family were able to see that much and not try to make a buck out of it.

If this goes ahead it will bomb as badly as Janet Jackson's Las Vegas residency where she can't sell enough ticket to fill half of a 5000 seat venue. Opening night was 60% empty.

Most parents of celebrity children did not want their kids at Neverland. Even now it would not attract anyone other than a few Wacko Jacko braindead obsessed fans.

[quote] Most movies today do not get that kind of attention, but they have the power and virtually unlimited resources to do it. They will not let it get released without it being a huge money maker. The story may be sanitized some, but it will get people in the seats.

You have no idea what you are talking about.

I wish they'd written a part for Katt into the script.