Michael Jackson biopic set to hit theaters in 2026
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
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| 0:33.3 | I about fell over yesterday. When I saw this, I was like, didn't we just have this conversation? |
| 0:38.3 | We were talking about if there was a movie biopic, |
| 0:41.5 | what artists would you like to see? |
| 0:43.8 | And I said Michael Jackson would be amazing. |
| 0:46.8 | And then later in the afternoon, |
| 0:48.7 | it was announced that Lionsgate is going to do the Michael, |
| 0:53.6 | which will be released on April 24th of 26. Yeah, so obviously there have been several of these biopic movies, the most recent one that's out now that has not done very well. As we said, it was not going to do very well. It's the Springsteen movie. And there went to what, the Queen movie, the Dylan movie, there was an Elvis movie. The Elvis one is horrible. I would, I think, I mean, like, the thing that got me about the Elvis movie, now I'm not seen the other two. They just made up so much stuff. And it's like Elvis lived an interesting enough life. You don't need to make it up. And it's like ridiculous stuff that never happened. |
| 1:28.8 | And it's like, why wouldn't you just do a thing on his actual life? It was fascinating. Like friends he never had and the way things went down is just like anyway. And so, yeah, we started this cut. You and Matt Hipplin, I think, our boss, we're having this conversation. to be like who is left that you would do a biopic about the people would be interested in. |
| 1:46.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.2 | And I said Michael Jack. our boss, we're having this conversation, who is left that you would do a biopic about the people would be interested in? |
| 1:46.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:47.2 | And I said Michael Jackson. |
| 1:48.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:49.0 | And then there it is. |
| 1:50.9 | So the release date, April 24th of 2026, it will star, his nephew, Jafar Jackson, will play him. |
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