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Antoine Fuqua\u2019s Michael Jackson biopic\u00a0Michael\u00a0has not had an easy go of it over the last several years<\/a>, for fairly understandable reasons. The major one being that Fuqua is making the movie under the watchful eye of Jackson\u2019s own family, who\u2019ve officially authorized the picture\u2014and then had to deauthorize at least a few parts of it<\/a>, notably references to one of the teenagers who accused Jackson of molesting them back in the 1990s. (Apparently, keeping the boy in question\u2019s name out of things like authorized biopics was part of Jackson\u2019s $20 million, no-admission-of-guilt settlement with the kid back in 1994\u2014something that only came up after the movie\u2019s script had been approved by the family for filming.) The film has been delayed two times already, but has now, supposedly, settled on its final home on the calendar: April 24, 2026, almost exactly a year after it was originally scheduled to come out.<\/p>\n Admittedly, some of these delays reportedly have less to do with legal issues with the movie\u2019s script, and more with how much of the Michael Jackson life story there was to try to shove into this thing. (Fuqua\u2019s initial cut apparently clocked in at more than 3 and a half hours; he\u2019s been talking continually about a second film, too.) Now, though, things have apparently been settled: The film (which stars Jackson\u2019s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, as the man himself ) has now landed the open April date for its global release.<\/p>\n Michael was written by John Logan, and is produced by Graham King, who previously helped turn musical biopic sludge into Oscar wins with the Queen-focused Bohemian Rhapsody. The film co-stars Colman Domingo as Jackson\u2019s father, Joe, and Nia Long as his mother, Katherine.<\/p>\n Michael Jackson biopic likely Moonwalking to 2026<\/a>The Michael Jackson biopic could be split in two<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introducing Endless Mode: A New Games & Anime Site from Paste Antoine Fuqua\u2019s Michael Jackson biopic\u00a0Michael\u00a0has not had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-17936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}