We’ll have to be patient before discovering the feature film Michael. According to DeadLine, Lionsgate has announced that its biopic about Michael Jackson will finally hit cinemas in October 2025, rather than in April as originally planned.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced by Graham King, the feature will be released in the middle of the Oscar campaign. A strategic postponement that the producers have already made for the biopic on the band Queen, Bohemian Rhapsodywhich by 2018 had earned $216 million (€197 million) in the US and $903 million (€839 million) worldwide, and four Oscars.

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“behind the accusations and the spotlight, there is simply a man with a very complicated life”

Graham King

The movie Michael retraces the artist’s life, from his beginnings with the Jackson 5, through the controversies and accusations he faced, to his globally successful solo career. “ He was a great artist. And he was human. So we’ll show the good, the bad and the ugly of his life. We’ll tell what happened, and it’ll be up to the audience to make up their own minds about Michael. “confided Antoine Fuqua in the show Good Morning America in August 2023. Graham King seemed to share this opinion, stating at the conference that “ behind the accusations and the spotlight, there is simply a man with a very complicated life “.

In 2023, however, the decision to devote a film to Michael Jackson was strongly criticized by Dan Reed, the director of Leaving Neverland, a shock documentary accusing Michael Jackson of pedophilia. The latter expressed his indignation in The Guardian : “ Why isn’t anyone calling for the cancellation of this film that glorifies a man who raped children? “, he wrote at the time.