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Michael (2026) Official trailer
- Thread starter VulcanRaven
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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.
VulcanRaven
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Early screening tickets are already on sale but the general tickets will be on sale soon:
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TerribleAtThisGame
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I saw the trailer at the theater and some scenes had me dying laughing. Dude playing him looks hilarious and it's more Hallmark Channel level silliness like the Queen flick. Looks straight poop to me.
VulcanRaven
Member
I thought that he sounds just like him. Jafaar is Michael's nephew.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
I think it was more the combo of the makeup job and that Ultra HD + vfx look. I'm a layman so it's hard for me to pinpoint, it just looked really funny to me in certain scenes. But yea I don't recall anything about the sound/music/voice.
VulcanRaven
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VulcanRaven
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Comparison:
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Powerhouse
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Anybody remember this early 90s biography?
Madflavor
Member
Was listening to the Thriller album during my evening drive the other day. It's nuts how almost every single song on there is a banger. I'm used to albums having 2-3 songs at most that are actually good while the rest are forgettable, but Thriller is a goddam masterpiece and I don't use that term lightly.
- Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
- Baby Be Mine.
- The Girl Is Mine
- Thriller.
- Beat It.
- Billie Jean.
- Human Nature.
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
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VulcanRaven
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Ngl that stance is pretty chad lol but to faint over that is retarded
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Madflavor
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Between the late 70s and the mid 90s, Michael Jackson was THE Guy. There hasn't been a Guy in the music industry since Michael. As big as singers like Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Drake, etc are, none of them have come close to matching how big Michael Jackson was. He was S-Tier in dancing, singing, writing, marketing, etc. Unlike a lot of musicians today, he was able to touch the entire world with his music, and he didn't need an algorithm to accomplish that. There's a video of a Amazonian Tribe that somehow knew about him.
I can see why a lot of women feinted over him tbh. The guy was truly larger than life. He could just appear on stage, stay completely still, and staff would be hauling bodies out of the stadium left and right. That level of fame just doesn't really exist anymore.
Yeah i recall rock bands doing backroom pump n dumps with some female crowds was a thing
AJUMP23
Parody of actual AJUMP23
They showed a clip and it is just the MJ Grammy performance, from the biopic. The performance is well known and shouldn't really be in the movie. You can see it anytime you want. I think it should be about the stuff around those events.
But what do I know.
But what do I know.
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Unknown?
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Ftfy, this was after the change.
Madflavor
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I'm not getting the impression that biopic will go into the controversial bits of Michael Jackson's life (his creepy enamourment with young boys, his weird love life, how his children were conceived, his addiction to plastic surgery that ruined his looks, etc).
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It's supposed to take place between his Jackson 5 days all the way up to Bad. It's also supposed to be Part 1, with plans to make a Part 2 depending on the success of the first film.
VulcanRaven
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That Jafaar Jackson interview on Fallon's show has reached over 1 million views in 16 hours. Pretty good.
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DrFigs
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who the hell would want to see part 2?
VulcanRaven
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Me because many of his best albums and videos were released in the 90s. Also they have already filmed a lot of material that can be used for Part 2. The first official photo they released from the movie was from Dangerous Tour 1992.
Edit: It seems that this skips most of Bad era. Trailers don't show anything from it except the Bad live performance. Maybe Part 2 can explore it more.
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Powerhouse
Neo Member
And would they lighten up his skin and slim his nose?
Madflavor
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Well you could say that Part 1 is the crowd, pleasing film, whereas Part 2 will be the more interesting and challenging film. If they don't pull any punches, it'll be very different.
I think a lot of people would be interested in seeing it.
VulcanRaven
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New trailer:
VulcanRaven
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I'll see this in few days. Will be great to hear the music in a movie theatre.
Baemono
Gold Member
That was the main purpose of the album. He was like "okay so instead of fillers, why don't we just put only hit songs ?"
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
I hope I get to see this in theater. But most likely I'll only get to see it when it hits streaming. Being in a small town has its drawbacks
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Michael Reviews - Metacritic
Michael tells the story of Michael Jackson’s life beyond the music, tracing his journey from the discovery of his extraordinary talent as the lead of the Jackson Five, to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fueled a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world...
www.metacritic.com
Not looking so good.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
