After a plethora of documentaries about Michael Jackson (like Kenny Ortega’s This Is It to name just the best known) produced between the 1990s and 2010, the inevitable will finally happen in the next few years: a biopic about the King of Pop died in June 2009 at the age of 50 and soberly titled Michael. Lionsgate studios have acquired the rights to adapt the career of Michael Jackson and intend to make this film the new Bohemian Rhapsody, a fictionalized and very divisive portrait of Freddie Mercury, which was a hit at the box office in 2018 (more than 900 million dollars in global revenue). And we do not say that by chance since Lionsgate recruited producer Graham King, at the origin of the biopic on the leader of Queen, to transcribe the life of Michael Jackson on the screen. The script has been entrusted to John Logan, screenwriter of Gladiator, Aviator or even Skyfall, while the staging will be in the hands of Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day and the Equalizer franchise. According to Deadline, the film is set to encompass much of the King of Pop’s career, from his debut with the Jackson Five to his death in 2009 from a heart attack, to the musical revolution of Thriller ( 1982) and the accusations of pedophilia that tarnished his image from the beginning of the 1990s. Filming should begin this year just after the end of that of Equalizer 3, which Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington are finishing in Italy. The choice of Antoine Fuqua to direct the biopic on Michael Jackson is probably linked to his background in the world of pop, since he filmed several clips for geniuses of this musical genre, including Prince and Stevie Wonder at the start of his career. career. Since the triumph of Bohemian Rhapsody, musical biopics have again been on the rise, as evidenced by the critical success of Elvis by Baz Luhrmann on the king of rock’n’roll and I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Kasi Lemmons on Whitney Houston. See also on Konbini
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