{"id":598783,"date":"2023-01-18T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/antoine-fuqua-to-direct-michael-jackson-biopic-for-lionsgate\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T18:35:00","slug":"antoine-fuqua-to-direct-michael-jackson-biopic-for-lionsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/antoine-fuqua-to-direct-michael-jackson-biopic-for-lionsgate\/","title":{"rendered":"Antoine Fuqua to Direct Michael Jackson Biopic for Lionsgate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The director of \u201dEmancipation\u201c and \u201dThe Equalizer\u201c will helm \u201dMichael,\u201c written by John Logan and produced by Graham King<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Antoine Fuqua, the man who directed such films as \u201cThe Equalizer,\u201d \u201cShooter,\u201d \u201cThe Magnificent Seven\u201d and \u201cEmancipation,\u201d has been tapped by Lionsgate to helm their upcoming Michael Jackson biopic. <\/p>\n

The film, entitled \u201cMichael,\u201d will be produced by Graham King (producer of the $911 million-grossing and Oscar-winning \u201cBohemian Rhapsody\u201d) and penned by John Logan (\u201cGladiator,\u201d \u201cThe Aviator,\u201d and many other acclaimed, Oscar-friendly titles). King will co-produce the film alongside John Branca and John McClain, the co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate. <\/p>\n

Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chair Joe Drake said: \u201cI am very excited that Lionsgate will be part of this epic film, and thrilled to be working with Graham, who has proven success in telling iconic life stories, from \u2018\u201dBohemian Rhapsody\u201d to \u201cAli;\u201d when combined with John, we couldn\u2019t be in more extraordinary hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Added King: \u201cI first met the Jackson family in 1981 and I\u2019m humbled to bring their legacy to the big screen. Sitting at Dodger Stadium watching the Victory Tour, I could never have imagined that nearly 38 years later I would get the privilege to be a part of this film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Katherine Jackson, \u201cEver since Michael was little, as a member of The Jackson 5, he loved the magic of cinema. As a family, we are honored to have our life story come alive on the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jackson is one of the biggest-selling artist of all time, with an estimated sales of 400 million records around the globe. He counts 13\u00a0Billboard\u00a0<\/em>Hot 100 No. 1 singles, more than any other male artist in the Hot 100 era, and was the first artist to have a top-10 single on that chart in five different decades. <\/p>\n

His honors include 15 Grammy wins, 6 Brit Awards, a Golden Globe and 39 Guinness World Records including Most Successful Entertainer of All Time. His inductions include the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (twice), the Vocal Group Hall of Fame, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Dance Hall of Fame (the only recording artist to be inducted) and the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

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King has become something of an expert at producing awards-friendly, commercially successful true-life tales, with hands in films like \u201cArgo,\u201d \u201cAli\u201d and a currently in-development Bee Gees biopic for Paramount. <\/p>\n

Lionsgate hopes that \u201cMichael\u201d will join a slew of successful musically inclined biopics \u2014 think \u201cRay,\u201d \u201cWalk the Line,\u201d and \u201cStraight Outta Compton\u201d \u2014 that flourished in pre-COVID times. Baz Luhrmann\u2019s blockbuster \u201cElvis\u201d ($285 million global on an $85 million budget) showed that the right real-life rock star could still qualify as a butts-in-seats marquee character. However, the recent Whitney Houston biopic \u201cI Wanna Dance With Somebody\u201d showed that it wasn\u2019t a one-size-fits-all formula. <\/p>\n

The film is being positioned as an in-depth portrayal of a complicated man who became the King of Pop, while bringing Jackson\u2019s iconic performances to life. How complicated, specifically in regard to the allegations of sexual misconduct involving minors that followed him for the last 16 years of his life, remains to be seen. Jackson stood trial and was acquitted in at least one such circumstance in 2005.<\/a><\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Fuqua\u2019s work as a journeyman filmmaker who tends to make uncompromisingly raw and violent actioners makes him an interesting choice. If the film delivers for fans of the King of Pop, potential controversy about what is and isn\u2019t left offscreen will be mostly confined to online media and social media discourse. <\/p>\n

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The director of \u201dEmancipation\u201c and \u201dThe Equalizer\u201c will helm \u201dMichael,\u201c written by John Logan and produced by Graham King Antoine Fuqua, the man who directed such films as \u201cThe Equalizer,\u201d \u201cShooter,\u201d \u201cThe Magnificent Seven\u201d and \u201cEmancipation,\u201d has been tapped by Lionsgate to helm their upcoming Michael Jackson biopic. The film, entitled \u201cMichael,\u201d will be produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30342,534,118138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antoine","category-financial","category-fuqua"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}