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Michael Jackson’s nephew, Jaafar, to play him in biopic


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Hes good casting BUT the actor from the musical (and the actor that was cast first but dropped out) have already shown that they can play michael

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Will be play for the whole movie or will they get different actors to play MJ? 

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oh this is going to flop :jonny5:

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I hate biopics from musicians. It’s just them in a studio or getting ready for a tour. 
 

boring 

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That’s cool for him to play Mike in from off the wall to thriller. Hell I’ll even give him hate teens. But who the hell is playing later Michael cause they need to sub in a white actor or else this is going to be another flex Anderson situation

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6 minutes ago, Tusk said:

I hate biopics from musicians. It’s just them in a studio or getting ready for a tour. 
 

boring 

hmmm i think you may be confusing biopics with documentaries? like for example the Madonna biopic was planned to have like her STORY, whereas a documentary like Five Foot Two was about the making of an album/preparation for a soup bowl performance 

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3 minutes ago, Mtjjproducer said:

That’s cool for him to play Mike in from off the wall to thriller. Hell I’ll even give him hate teens. But who the hell is playing later Michael cause they need to sub in a white actor or else this is going to be another flex Anderson situation

CGI has come a long way, I think they could definitely do something like that. 

Dr. Alexander
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3 minutes ago, Mtjjproducer said:

That’s cool for him to play Mike in from off the wall to thriller. Hell I’ll even give him hate teens. But who the hell is playing later Michael cause they need to sub in a white actor or else this is going to be another flex Anderson situation

Why would they need to hire someone else? Michael didn’t actually turn into a white person genetically. 

 

Michael slathered himself in white makeup. Why wouldn’t they do the same in the film? 

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6 minutes ago, Mtjjproducer said:

That’s cool for him to play Mike in from off the wall to thriller. Hell I’ll even give him hate teens. But who the hell is playing later Michael cause they need to sub in a white actor or else this is going to be another flex Anderson situation

 

2 minutes ago, Kool_Aid_King said:

CGI has come a long way, I think they could definitely do something like that. 

pretty sure the film will end in the 80's while michael still had dark skin

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They said the film will address all the controversies so im sure itll go up until early 2000s atleast

 

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3 minutes ago, Dr. Alexander said:

Why would they need to hire someone else? Michael didn’t actually turn into a white person genetically. 

 

Michael slathered himself in white makeup. Why wouldn’t they do the same in the film? 

That wasn’t just makeup. Vitiligo lightened his skin he depigmented his other skin to match. Physically Michael had white skin  it would make more sense to use a white actor for bad to the end of his life.
 

they tried putting a white person in white makeup. Look up flex Anderson as Michael Jackson. **** was a mess. No makeup in the world would make a black person look how MJ looked at the later years of his life. You need 2 actors

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12 minutes ago, JoeAg said:

hmmm i think you may be confusing biopics with documentaries? like for example the Madonna biopic was planned to have like her STORY, whereas a documentary like Five Foot Two was about the making of an album/preparation for a soup bowl performance 

Nope.  Not confused

 

Madonna’s was scrapped because she wanted it to be different 

 

Never heard of Five Foot Two

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I'm sure this movie will do great covering up the rapes, lmao.

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5 minutes ago, Tusk said:

Nope.  Not confused

 

Madonna’s was scrapped because she wanted it to be different 

 

Never heard of Five Foot Two

have you seen Rocketman or Bohemian Rhapsody or Straight Outta Compton or even Walk the Line? none of those are really just about being in the studio/getting ready for touring tbh…

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There can never be a true Michael Jackson biopic. If they're having him end at Thriller, maybe. Anything after that would be :deadbanana: He was truly stranger than fiction, it would never work. Anyone doing the voice or wearing prosthetics would look comically absurd or feel like horror, which they obviously wouldn't be going for

 

 

 

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does he act?

Dr. Alexander
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30 minutes ago, Mtjjproducer said:

That wasn’t just makeup. Vitiligo lightened his skin he depigmented his other skin to match. Physically Michael had white skin  it would make more sense to use a white actor for bad to the end of his life.

I am very familiar with his story with vitiligo, which is an entire different conversation in itself. 
 

His skin and small patches of vitiligo were covered by white makeup in his prime. 
 

It used to melt off of him at every show in the late-80s, therefore slathering the actor in makeup would make sense during his prime years. I’m not quite sure what they’d do past the 2000s.

 

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56 minutes ago, Mtjjproducer said:

Physically Michael had white skin  it would make more sense to use a white actor for bad to the end of his life.

They tried this once. First, doing so would be against his own wishes. Second, no. There are plenty of light-skinned African Americans out there. There is no reason to cast a Caucasian in the role here.

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41 minutes ago, X~MoviePoP said:

They said the film will address all the controversies so im sure itll go up until early 2000s atleast

Sure. :lmao:

 

With his nephew playing him we already know it’d be the same old “greedy families lied on him for money” story if they were to get into that controversy and that’d pretty much doom the film critically from the get go and result in a Leaving Neverland 2.0 online debate that’d completely overshadow the movie. It’s not gonna happen. Not worth it if they want this to be a success and do anything remotely positive for his memory and legacy.

Dr. Alexander
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4 hours ago, jdanton2 said:

i like bio's and i would most likely see it. there was actually a bio in the early 90's that covered Michael and his family up until that point. that was quite good.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jacksons:_An_American_Dream

 

This is a Black staple in film and television :clap3:

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I hope it doesn't end up being a damage control movie but I'm sure it will be.

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He looks a lot like MJ for obvious reasons, but is he a good actor? :celestial5:

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Nephew? Lol. Oh well having his son play him def wouldnt work 

 

 

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