Troubled Michael Jackson Biopic Michael Gets A Teaser Trailer

A big, splashy, stupid biopic about an ’80s pop superstar hit theaters last month. It was called Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and I saw it. But we were supposed to get two big, splashy, stupid biopics about ’80s pop superstars in October. For a very long time, Training Day director Antoine Fuqua has been hard at work on the Michael Jackson movie Michael, with Michael’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the titular role. Thanks to a ton of expensive problems that honestly should’ve been very preventable, the film didn’t make it into theaters on its announced release date. Instead, Michael is now due to arrive next April, and we’re getting our first look at it today.

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