{"id":973687,"date":"2019-11-22T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T19:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916842"},"modified":"2019-11-22T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T19:36:28","slug":"bohemian-rhapsody-producer-lands-authorized-michael-jackson-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/bohemian-rhapsody-producer-lands-authorized-michael-jackson-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019 Producer Lands Authorized Michael Jackson Biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The producer of Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> has reached a deal with Michael Jackson<\/a>\u2019s estate to make an authorized biopic about the late King of Pop.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deadline first reported<\/a> that producer Graham King\u2019s GK Films \u2014 which produced the Queen biopic and also has a Bee Gees film in the works<\/a> \u2014 secured the rights to Jackson\u2019s life story as well as the use of his music. A representative for GK Films confirmed the acquisition to Rolling Stone<\/em>. <\/span>A rep for the Jackson estate declined to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Deadline, Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Logan \u2014 who previously worked with King on another biopic, Martin Scorsese\u2019s The Aviator<\/em> \u2014 will pen the Jackson biopic script, with the film, like Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em>, not shying away from the more controversial moments of Jackson\u2019s life and career.<\/span><\/p>\n

No movie studio has aligned with the Jackson biopic yet and no casting decisions have been made. The biopic marks the first authorized film about Jackson, whose life has been the focus of numerous critically-panned television movies, most recently Lifetime\u2019s Searching for Neverland<\/em> in 2017. Jackson\u2019s alleged sexual abuse of two young boys was examined in the recent HBO documentary Leaving Neverland<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

News of the authorized Jackson biopic comes one day after Ain\u2019t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations<\/em> actor and original Hamilton<\/em> cast member Ephraim Sykes will portray the King of Pop in the similarly authorized MJ: The Musical<\/em><\/a>, set to open on Broadway in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The producer of Bohemian Rhapsody has reached a deal with Michael Jackson\u2019s estate to make an authorized biopic about the late King of Pop. Deadline first reported that producer Graham King\u2019s GK Films \u2014 which produced the Queen biopic and also has a Bee Gees film in the works \u2014 secured the rights to Jackson\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 23:55:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}