{"id":598196,"date":"2026-05-22T15:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598196\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:28:09","slug":"michael-sequel-confirmed-studio-boss-suggests-it-might-not-follow-chronologically-from-first-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/598196\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Michael\u2019 sequel confirmed, studio boss suggests it might not follow chronologically from first film"},"content":{"rendered":"

The head of the studio behind hit biopic Michael<\/a> has said a sequel is moving forward, and that the new film may not follow chronologically from where the last one ended.<\/p>\n

The story of the life of Michael Jackson<\/a> (played by Jaafar Jackson) broke records upon its release<\/a> and has so far earned $715million (\u00a3532million) worldwide at the box office. The film ended with the caption \u201cHis Story Continues\u201d, implying a sequel may be on the way, and Lionsgate\u2019s Motion Picture Chair Adam Fogelson has shed some light on the development.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are really excited about the progress we\u2019re making with respect to a second Michael film,\u201d the executive said, via Variety<\/a>. \u201cAll the conversations that we\u2019ve been having with all of the appropriate parties continue to go exceptionally well.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The first film covered the star\u2019s life from childhood to the peak of his fame in the late \u201880s. A legal settlement prevented the production from portraying the court cases that occurred later in his life, with the film requiring reshoots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Regarding the timeline for the second film, Fogelson said: \u201cMuch of the biggest and most popular parts of his music catalogue were not touched upon in the first film. There are so many other events that happened, even in the time frame of the original movie that weren\u2019t touched upon, so we\u2019re very, very confident that we\u2019ve got an incredibly entertaining movie that will appeal once again to a global audience as the pieces come together.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then emphasised that the story may not be strictly chronological \u201cWe can go forwards and backwards in telling this story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In other news, Michael Jackson\u2019s daughter Paris recently won a legal battle for $625,000 to be returned to her father\u2019s estate.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of the studio behind hit biopic Michael has said a sequel is moving forward, and that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,1581,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-598196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-pop","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}