The upcoming Michael Jackson movie reportedly does not feature any scenes dealing with the singer\u2019s high-profile child abuse allegations after they were cut from the film, allegedly forcing reshoots that added $15 million to the budget.<\/p>\n
Variety<\/a> said Michael<\/a>, which sees Michael Jackson\u2019s real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson play the title role, was meant to include a scene in which police arrive at Neverland Ranch to search for evidence of child abuse in 1993, but it does not appear in the final cut.<\/p>\n This is allegedly one of many scenes that were meant to explore this part of Jackson\u2019s life in the third act of the movie, but they were all cut because attorneys for the Jackson estate \u201crealized there was a clause in a settlement with one of the singer\u2019s accusers, Jordan Chandler, that barred the depiction or mention of him in any movie.\u201d Michael Jackson had denied all allegations, and his estate continues to deny the claims.<\/p>\n This sparked $15 million dollars worth of reshoots and a new ending, Variety reported, contributing to a delay to the movie\u2019s release from April last year to this spring. The Jackson estate covered the cost because the error was theirs, Variety said, but it now has an equity stake in the film.<\/p>\n So what happens at the end of Michael as a result? The movie reportedly concludes with a scene set during Jackson\u2019s Bad tour, which ran from 1987 to 1989. There isn\u2019t a single mention of the child abuse allegations at any point in the movie, Variety said. It sounds like it will revolve around the music and Jackson\u2019s troubled relationship with his father, Joe, played by Colman Domingo. But it also allegedly touches on Jackson\u2019s painkiller abuse. Janet Jackson is not in the movie, Variety said.<\/p>\n Michael Jackson\u2019s three children allegedly weren\u2019t involved in the making of the movie. In September last year, Jackson\u2019s daughter, Paris, criticized the \u201csugar-coated\u201d biopic about her father, saying it \u201cpanders to a very specific section of my dad\u2019s fandom that still lives in the fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI read one of the first drafts of the script and gave my notes about what was dishonest \/ didn\u2019t sit right with me, and when they didn\u2019t address it, I moved on with my life,\u201d Paris said in a social media post. \u201cNot my monkeys, not my circus. God bless and God speed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo I just butted out and left it alone because it\u2019s not my project,\u201d she added. \u201cThey\u2019re going to make whatever they\u2019re going to make. A big reason why I haven\u2019t said anything up until this point is because I know a lot of you guys are gonna be happy with it.<\/p>\n \u201cA big section of the film panders to a very specific section of my dad\u2019s fandom that still lives in the fantasy, and they\u2019re gonna be happy with it.<\/p>\n \u201cThe narrative is being controlled and there\u2019s a lot of inaccuracy and there\u2019s a lot of just full-blown lies. At the end of the day, that doesn\u2019t really fly with me. Go enjoy it. Do whatever. Leave me out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo by Kevin Mazur\/WireImage.<\/p>\n Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming Michael Jackson movie reportedly does not feature any scenes dealing with the singer\u2019s high-profile child abuse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-386829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386829","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=386829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}