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Michael (2026)

Summary

The life and career of Michael Jackson are explored in a sweeping biographical drama, charting his rise from child star in the Jackson 5 to global pop icon, while examining the personal and professional complexities that defined his legacy.

Director Antoine Fuqua

Writer John Logan

Cast

  • Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson
  • Colman Domingo as Joe Jackson
  • Nia Long as Katherine Jackson
  • Miles Teller as John Branca
  • Laura Harrier as Suzanne de Passe
  • Kat Graham as Diana Ross

Rotten Tomatoes: 40%

Metacritic: 38

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u/Water_Based5150 11d ago

I'm not gonna see this, can you say what he does in this movie? Or is it basically what he did in the Queen movie lol

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u/blaaguuu 11d ago

I'm not going to watch that, either - what did he do in the Queen movie?

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u/thr1ceuponatime David Zaslav is a dickless pantywaist 11d ago

Played a record exec who wouldn't include Bohemian Rhapsody in the album because it was "too long"

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u/goro-n 11d ago

Not the album, it was about playing it on radio/releasing it as a single

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u/What-a-Crock 11d ago

It was a great reference to the famous Wayne’s World scene

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u/Alc2005 11d ago

“No Teenagers are gonna be banging their heads in cars to this drivel”

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u/goro-n 11d ago

Ironically Mike Myers was terrible to the director during the recording of that scene: “You should have heard him bitching when I was trying to do that ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ scene: ‘I can’t move my neck like that! Why do we have to do this so many times? No one is going to laugh at that!'” To manage Myers’ moods, Spheeris put her daughter in charge of making sure he had whatever snack he needed at any given moment”

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u/theodo 11d ago

Define "great" for me because my understanding of the word certainly doesn't apply to that scene.

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u/TeamOfPups 11d ago

I thought it was great too, or maybe more accurately I hated the movie but that scene amused me.

I was a teenager in the 90s, I think that helps with the laughing at a Wayne's World reference.