Only one thing could have saved the Michael Jackson biopic
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We didn’t get the Michael Jackson biopic we deserve (Picture: Barry King/WireImage)
The defining feature of the new Michael Jackson biopic is not what it shows us, but what it doesn’t – and why that omission matters more than the film seems willing to admit.
After a late discovery of a legal clause preventing any reference to Jordan Chandler, whose father accused Michael Jackson of sexually assaulting his son in 1993, the production was forced into a major rethink.
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The defining feature of the new Michael Jackson biopic is not what it shows us, but what it doesn’t – and why that omission matters more than the film seems willing to admit.
After a late discovery of a legal clause preventing any reference to Jordan Chandler, whose father accused Michael Jackson of sexually assaulting his son in 1993, the production was forced into a major rethink.
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