‘Emancipation’s Antoine Fuqua To Direct Michael Jackson Biopic For Lionsgate; John Logan Script & ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’s Graham King Producing With Estate
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Antoine Fuqua is set to direct Michael, a Lionsgate drama with script by telling the complex life story of the iconic singer Michael Jackson.
A script is in by John Logan, and the film will be produced by Graham King, who turned the Freddie Mercury Queen story into the blockbuster Best Picture nominated Bohemian Rhapsody.
GK Films will produce alongside co-executors of Jackson’s estate, John Branca and John McClain. Turning Mercury’s complicated rise, fall and triumphant comeback into a film that won Best Actor for Rami Malek might have been an easier task than the moonwalking over landmines that will have to be done with Jackson’s story.
Anyone who has seen the job that Fuqua did on the Will Smith-starrer Emancipation might come away believing he hit a high watermark as a filmmaker because of his unflinching telling of an often brutal story of the escaped enslaved man Joseph.
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