Michael Jackson biopic ‘in jeopardy’ over detail estate are ‘banned’ from dramatising - Report claims that the film’s creators are now facing costly reshoots ahead of its planned release in October

The third act of the Michael Jackson biopic will reportedly have to be completely rewritten, due to an agreement overlooked by team behind the film.

The estate-approved biopic on Michael Jackson is reportedly in limbo due to child molestation allegations that continue to haunt the late King of Pop, who died in 2009. Distributors for “Michael” announced in November the release date for the film would be rescheduled from April 2025 to later this year,

The team behind an upcoming big-budget Michael Jackson biopic is racing to rewrite, reshoot, and re-edit the film’s third act after they discovered it violated a decades-old agreement with one of Jackson’s underage accusers.

The upcoming Michael Jackson movie, which finished filming in May 2024, reportedly requires major reshoots after it was discovered that a past settlement barred a former molestation accuser from having their story be dramatized,

Well, the third act of the Thriller artist‘s biopic covers this issue at length, with director Antoine Fuqua depicting Jackson in the movie as a “naïve victim of the money-grubbing Chandlers” juxtaposed with a scene of Jordan’s father “threatening to leverage his son’s accusations to destroy his ex-wife and Jackson’s career.