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Michael (2026) Official trailer
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calistan
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ResurrectedContrarian
Suffers with mild autism
the trailer's song choice has me on board already... Lou Reed produced by David Bowie with Mick Ronson on piano, basically I think of that album as a Spiders from Mars spinoff
Fake
Member
Thats is great actually, because is really looks like.
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Is Martin Bashir going to be in this?
Pop culture icon mashups like this are probably gonna be a thing at some point, assuming the estates could ever cooperate. Sadly no one could probably afford to make a film about the back-stage hijinks around making the "We are the World" video, for example, because getting permission for all those singers would cost $$$$$$$.
DKehoe
Member
The film has got such a great soundtrack. I've found myself listening to a playlist of it a few times since watching it.
Modi1984
Neo Member
100%
And he did some facelifting in 08
This photo less than 24 hours before his death
VulcanRaven
Member
I haven't seen it either and I really liked the previous ones. I think the whole Bad 25 is still my favorite thing the Estate has done. That documentary, Wembley DVD and the new songs/demos.
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Jinzo Prime
Gold Member
New trailer:
I'm starting to get really excited about this.
Jaafar really sounds like his uncle. This is gonna be fun.
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Audiophile
Member
Beat me to it!
I thought this thread was about a remake of this
Paasei
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IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Crazy that there hasn't been a musical artist since who has that much of an impact on people.
Who are the biggest artists in the world currently? Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Bad Bunny? All massive, but you don't see people going into fits of euphoric delirium just by seeing them in person.
VulcanRaven
Member
Official behind the scenes clip:
Jafaar seems to be very good in the role.
Jafaar seems to be very good in the role.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
This has been repeated ad nauseum but I don't see how that somehow justifies having sleepovers with kids well into your 40s. The dude was an adult, his weird childlike persona fake voice wasn't even turned on 100% of the time as there is footage of him talking normally and plenty of people can attest that he didn't act that way privately.
Dude was like flat out addicted to having children in his bed considering he continued to do it well after law suits and shit. Cosplaying as a child as a 44 year old for any other human being on planet earth and they would be shunned by everyone lol
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Rat Rage
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Michael Jackson's life is a tragedy. He was a very gifted human being that was mentally abused / exploited so badly in his childhood that he developed a mental disorder.
The Michael Jackson you all know on stage is not even real. It's a persona. The real Michael Jackson is the one with a very soft, childlike voice that got stuck in his childhood (mentally) and never fully grew up. The real Michael Jackson is basically a mentally ill child. That's why he could not love adults and probably could only relate to children, because he himself was still a child.
There is a reason he named his ranch "Neverland" (like the Neverland from Peter Pan).
The Michael Jackson you all know on stage is not even real. It's a persona. The real Michael Jackson is the one with a very soft, childlike voice that got stuck in his childhood (mentally) and never fully grew up. The real Michael Jackson is basically a mentally ill child. That's why he could not love adults and probably could only relate to children, because he himself was still a child.
There is a reason he named his ranch "Neverland" (like the Neverland from Peter Pan).
MrCunningham
Member
So after watching the teaser, I don't know what to even think about it yet. It frames this biopic as a 'rise and fall' story of Michael Jackson. It also puts emphasis on how his father really pushed the Jackson's into show business. But, will it capture any of the nuance of Michael Jackson?
My evaluation on Michael Jackson is that he was a complicated human being, with many different layers to his personality. To me a real Michael Jackson biopic would be partly a 'rise to fame' story followed by a elephant man inspired horror story. Michael was quite possibly one of the most controversial musician's to ever live.
I know you have musicians like Eminem who tried to fabricate his own controversy, or someone like Marilyn Manson. No modern pop musician will have anything on Michael Jackson From his never ending obsession with plastic surgery, to his sleep over parties, his mysterious kid named blanket, his insane 'never really going to grow up' child like attitude. I remember when he died and Quincy Jones was interviewed about his death... I can't find this video anymore; but Quincy basically said that Michael wanted to be white more than anything. His alleged vitiligo was his attempt at bleaching his skin. Michael was talented as fuck. But holy shit did he have a lot of baggage. Michael owns a large chunk of Elvis's music catalogue as well as the Beetles. he apparently owned a big chunk of Sony Music. he was worth a fortune too.
But then again, a lot of those insane things that Michael did have almost be been normalized through the passage of time. In a weird way he was also ahead of his time.
Jinzo Prime
Gold Member
This is a feel-good blockbuster about a boy from podunk Gary, Indiana becoming the biggest pop-star in the world. There will be very little nuance, just like the Queen biopic from the same producer.
clarky
Gold Member
Shite then.