This was bound to happen sooner later but Michael Jackson’s life is finally going to get the movie treatment & the project has the full support of MJ’s estate.
Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King has secured from the Michael Jackson estate the rights to make a film about the icon’s life & has full access to all of his music as well. King’s GK Films has employed three-time Oscar-nominated writer John Logan, who penned Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator, to write the script.
Even though MJ’s estate is on board, the film isn’t intended to be a sanitized rendering of Jackson’s life. The goal is to offer up a complex look at a very complicated, albeit very talented, pop icon. The estate will not be involved in the development of the screenplay from Logan, Oscar-nominated for writing Aviator, Scorsese’s Hugo and Ridley Scott’s Best Picture winner Gladiator. He and King will shape the script before setting it at a studio.
