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Opinion | ‘Michael,' the new King of Pop biopic, feels a lot like AI could have made it

The film is utterly incurious about the King of Pop’s psychological development, personality and contradictions — the things that made him human.

After I watched “Michael,”  the new Jackson estate-approved biopic that follows the King of Pop from his youth in Gary, Indiana, until he proclaims his independence from his notoriously imperious father in 1984, I took the New York subway home. 

I could not stop thinking about Jordan Neely, a homeless Michael Jackson impersonator, who was in the middle of a mental health crisis aboard an MTA train on May 1, 2023. He died after Daniel Penny, a white U.S. Marine veteran, placed him in a chokehold. On the way home from the movie, I could not stop thinking about what we lose by choosing to turn away from ugly, difficult truths rather than engage them, and what we lose when we reject introspection.

Michael Jackson biopic sequel in 'early development'

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Michael Jackson's biopic is "definitely" at the centre of talks for a sequel, actor Effie Spence says.

Spence, who portrays Liza Minnelli in the newly released film about the pop superstar, made the admission as she praised its lead Jaafar Jackson for a "sublime" portrayal of his uncle.

"I think there's definitely kind of talk for there being a second film," she told Page Six.

The Action-Film Director Who’s Taking On Michael Jackson

At an early screening of “Michael,” the new bio-pic based on the life of Michael Jackson, there was silence for a moment after the credits rolled, and then someone exclaimed, “That was fucking awesome!” It was a good omen, although in fairness this was not an unbiased audience. A couple of dozen people had gathered at a sound stage on the Universal Studios lot, in California, for some last-minute trouble-shooting, and so everyone in the room was invested in the film’s success.

“Michael” was designed to be an international crowd-pleaser—the kind of film that executives hope will drag audiences away from their small screens and deposit them in front of big ones, where they can watch and sing along and even dance, if theatres permit it. There was no dancing on this night, unless you counted the projected receipts waltzing through the minds of the people involved. The movie’s lead producer is Graham King, an Englishman who also produced “Bohemian Rhapsody,” about the rock band Queen, which made more than nine hundred million dollars at the box office upon its release, in 2018. King has been working ever since then to bring a Michael Jackson film to theatres, and now only technicalities remained. He suggested that the crowd noise be increased during one of the concert scenes. (The movie has lots of concert scenes.) “Those of us that have been lucky enough to be at a Michael concert, it was fucking chaos,” he said. “You want to feel that.”

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