{"id":354891,"date":"2026-03-19T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354891\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T20:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:05:08","slug":"michael-jackson-movie-reveals-new-teaser-nephew-jaafar-steps-into-king-of-pops-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354891\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson Movie Reveals New Teaser \u2013 Nephew Jaafar Steps Into King of Pop\u2019s Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new teaser for the highly anticipated Michael Jackson<\/a> biopic, Michael, has just been released, giving fans their first glimpse at the legendary singer\u2019s life brought to the big screen. The film is directed by Antoine Fuqua<\/a> and written by John Logan<\/a>, with Jackson<\/a>\u2019s nephew, Jaafar Jackson<\/a>, making his acting debut as the King of Pop.<\/p>\n

The movie chronicles Michael Jackson\u2019s journey from his early days with the Jackson 5<\/a> through his rise as a solo superstar. The ensemble cast also includes Nia Long<\/a> as Katherine Jackson<\/a>, Colman Domingo<\/a> as Joe Jackson<\/a>, Miles Teller<\/a> as John Branca<\/a>, Laura Harrier<\/a> as Suzanne de Passe<\/a>, and several actors portraying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new teaser for the highly anticipated Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, has just been released, giving fans their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[33731,25503,33729,33730,9442,93,695,3211,61,60,278,33732,3212,904,282],"class_list":["post-354891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-acteurs","tag-actrices","tag-actualites","tag-celebrites","tag-cinema","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-realisateurs","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354891","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=354891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}