Acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua has been tapped to helm Lionsgate's highly anticipated Michael Jackson biopic. Fuqua rose to prominence in 2001 with the gritty crime thriller Training Day. which starred Denzel Washington as a crooked cop and earned him his first Academy Award for Best Actor. Since then, Fuqua has continued to find success in the director's chair with other gritty films such as Brooklyn's Finest, Southpaw, and the Equalizer trilogy.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Fuqua's next project will be the Michael Jackson biopic , as confirmed by Lionsgate. It is set to begin filming this year. The film will be produced by Graham King, who has worked on such critically acclaimed films as Argo, other successful biopics Ali and Bohemian Rhapsody, and The Departed, for which he won an Academy Award. Also working as producers on the biopic will be the co-executors of the Michael Jackson estate John Branca and John McClain.
The first films of my career were music videos, and I still feel that combining film and music are a deep part of who I am. For me, there is no artist with the power, the charisma, and the sheer musical genius of Michael Jackson. I was influenced to make music videos by watching his work – the first Black artist to play in heavy rotation on MTV. His music and those images are part of my worldview, and the chance to tell his story on the screen alongside his music was irresistible.
One option is to scour the already established Hollywood talent pool to find someone to take on the role. Evan Ross, who was recently in another biopic, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, would be an intriguing option considering he's got the right look, and his mom, Diana Ross, is another superstar musician, which means he'll have an intimate knowledge of what that kind of fame is like.
Another avenue the creatives can take is to cast a wide net and go through the audition process to find a diamond in the rough, or maybe two if the filmmakers decide to cast different actors for Jackson's early and later life. Going with an unknown actor has been a popular casting path for many recent musician biopics, such as Billie Holiday's The United States vs. Billie Holiday and Tupac Shakur's All Eyez On Me.
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