"Last fall, Jackson's daughter, Paris Jackson, distanced herself from the biopic, saying she felt the story was overly sanitized. "The film panders to a very specific section of my dad's fandom, that still lives in the fantasy, and they're going to be happy with it," Paris said in an Instagram post back in September. "It's Hollywood. It's fantasy land. It's not real... The narrative is being controlled. There's a lot of inaccuracies, and just full-blown lies.""
"In fact, Michael reportedly underwent significant rewrites and reshoots to its third act due to a previously overlooked agreement signed by the Jackson family, which promised that no film about the musician would include the story of Jordan Chandler, the 13-year-old who made molestation allegations against Jackson in 1993. Matt Belloni of Puck News previously reported that the original plan for the film's third act was to focus on the 1993 investigation and Chandler's statements, portraying Jackson as naïve in the face of opportunistic individuals with allegedly unfounded claims."
Antoine Fuqua's Michael Jackson biopic stars Jaafar Jackson as Michael alongside Nia Long, Colman Domingo, Miles Teller, Laura Harrier, and Juliano Krue Valdi. The film will be released in theaters and IMAX on April 24, 2026. Paris Jackson publicly distanced herself, calling the depiction sanitized, inaccurate, and controlled. The newly released trailer emphasizes Jackson's rise with The Jackson 5 and his blockbuster solo peak, with no evident treatment of later controversies. Reportedly, the film underwent substantial rewrites and reshoots to its third act because of a Jackson family agreement barring inclusion of the Jordan Chandler story.
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