Michael Jackson 2026 film

The 90s fan girl in me is excited.

I think the trouble is that almost certainly this biopic will dodge all the controversy about Michael -- his weirdness, the allegations of child molestation, other scandals -- for a highly sanitized experience.

The narrative from the trailer -- extremely talented guy breaks away from the rest of his talented family and his domineering dad -- only is a portion of things.

But even within that sanitized narrative, I wonder if it's going to really say anything meaningful and new about MJ.

I implicitly trust Antoine Fuqua, though, so there's that.

The original cinematic version of that story will always be better (minus the talented family part)

Big Prince fan and I must have seen Purple Rain numerous times, including when it was originally released in the theater. Back in MY day, we didn't have all these streaming services and these fancy Blu-Rays whatchamacallits. We had VHS, and I must have watched it or certain scenes from it, at least a dozen times. IYKYK.

But if there were a MJ film that didn't hold back, that would be incredible.

P.S. The Kid's dad was immensely talented so there's that. I don't think the movie ever really developed whether mom was a musician in her own right, but the Kid's dad wrote a whole bunch of songs and basically he stole some of them to have his big comeback at the end.

Yes. To what extent will thus film feature Pedo Mike? That alone is worth a watch.

I believe it’s two parts so the first part won’t talk about that stuff.

My guess is that it will do what some of these films do and take him to the peak (Thriller) and stop there.

I have nothing bad to say about "Purple Rain" but this is still my favorite scene in the movie

The Time - Jungle Love (Scene from Purple Rain, 1984)

That egomaniac bit is the right kind of fun to offset the drama of the rest of it

Why the Michael Jackson Movie Doesn’t Cover Sexual-Abuse Allegations

Sorta glad that they were basically forced to not go into it, because however they played it, it would probably have been ugly. Whether they try to say "Could have happened, could have not happened," or "Totally happened" or "totally didn't happen," bringing in the pedo stuff would complicate things.

Also, it sounds like Fuqua was going to put his fingers on the scale of not just "didn't happen" but "didn't happen and the one accuser we were going to include in the film was a scam artist, pay no attention to those other accusers behind the curtain. Poor misunderstood and victimized Michael" Which...is a choice.

I was a teenager when it came out, and its debut was before certain things were online. So I figure one can guess my favorite scenes involved baptism, among others.

Will the movie have Bubbles?

Is this movie going to touch me in the privates?

Not if you're old enough.

Saw it and enjoyed it, but I was kind of disappointed by it at the same time.
There's just not any real depth to it. There's almost no personality revealed about Michael or any of the characters beyond the obvious surface level that if you're old enough to remember any of these events you probably already knew.

Dad was abusive, mom was gentle, his brothers were just kind of there. There is I think only one scene where any of them have any non-singing dialogue that isn't them just saying yes sir to Dad.

Michael is talented, and a dreamer and likes animals and kids. We knew all this.

Still, the songs and dancing is all fire. It looks like they may do a part 2 covering his life after Bad.

Did you ever watch The Jackson’s miniseries on VH1? They go into detail of Michal’s early childhood.

So.... basically it was a retelling of The Jacksons: An American Dream miniseries from 1992?



Think I'll wait to stream it.

I didn't see the miniseries.

But the movie did a lot of touching on the what happened but not a lot of the why.

For instance, we see Joe Jackson pushing his kids to be stars and wanting it to be about "the Jacksons" rather than Michael's solo act. But it wasn't really established in the film why he didn't just enjoy the fact that Michael was making them big money or why he wanted the brothers to share in that success. We see Michael's brothers playing gigs with him and rehearsing with him, but we have exactly one scene outside that context where Michael tries to get them to play Twister with him as adults and they all decline. We don't get their perspectives about pretty much any of this. Janet Jackson is not mentioned in the entire movie, presumably because she didn't want to sign away whatever rights.

There was actually one thing that I didn't know that the movie recounted, so I will give it credit for that: that early MTV wouldn't play Michael Jackson videos off of Thriller because of soft racism and had to be strong-armed into giving him airplay. Given that Michael was so ubiquitous on the channel and that he was such a star overall, it was hard to imagine that actually happened.

There's something to be said for enjoying the music with a big theatrical sound system. And as annoying as having other people can be in a theater, a movie like this where people are responding to the music like it's almost a concert can lift it above a home viewing.

I thought it was bad, so bad, really really bad.

Famously, it's not until the second term that the pedophile stuff really comes to fruition. But Michael's fans are so blinded by him that they set it aside or else they might look like pedos themselves, especially considering some of the statements they've made in light of supporting a pedophile.