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Unless we’re counting vanity projects like Moonwalker and Captain EO, Michael Jackson only acted in two movies in his entire life. He was Scarecrow in The Wiz in 1978, and he had a quick cameo in 2002’s Men In Black II. Jackson wanted more. Every once in a while, we’ll hear that Jackson tried to play Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace or that he pitched himself as the next James Bond. Now, with the long-gestating Netflix adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comic The Sandman finally out in the world, we’re hearing that Jackson wanted to be in that, too.
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The Michael Jackson Estate is banking on the belief that the late pop superstar has emerged relatively unscathed from this year's renewed focus on allegations of serial pedophilia via HBO's Leaving Neverland documentary. Not only is the self-proclaimed King Of Pop getting a biographical jukebox musical next year -- just yesterday we learned he'd...
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Could it be as much of a success?PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 31: Michael Jackson performs at the Super Bowl XXVII Halftime show at the Rose Bowl on January 31, 1993 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/WireImage)Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King has secured the rights to make a film about Michael Jackson’s life. That&...
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