This is it.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Lionsgate released the first teaser for Michael starring Michael Jackson\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson\u00a0Nov. 6, who is the spitting image of his late uncle.<\/p>\n
Jaafar does a complete transformation in\u00a0clips of Michael including ones of him taking the stage for fans, accepting his Grammys and doing his signature Moon Walk while Quincy Jones\u00a0(Kendrick Sampson) gives him a peptalk from the studio.<\/p>\n
Finally, Michael walks up to the microphone in the recording booth and asks, \u201cQ, can you lower the lights for me, please?\u201d before flashing his signature grin and laugh.<\/p>\n
The teaser\u2014set to a mashup of Michael\u2019s hits \u201cWanna be Startin\u2019 Something,\u201d “Beat It\u201d and “Human Nature\u201d\u2014ends with clips from various eras of the singer\u2019s life from childhood, to filming the \u201cThriller\u201d music video and one final iconic dance scene.<\/p>\n
The trailer earned praise from Michael\u2019s son Prince Jackson, who celebrated his cousin\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n
\u201cExcited for the world to see this,\u201d Prince wrote alongside a clip of\u00a0the trailer on Instagram Nov. 6. \u201cSo proud of everyone involved in this but none more than my cousin @jaafarjackson. The world\u2019s not ready for you cuz.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is it. Indeed, Lionsgate released the first teaser for Michael starring Michael Jackson\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson\u00a0Nov. 6,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-127009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}