Antoine Fuqua is set to direct a biopic about music legend Michael Jackson.
The turbulent life story of the King of Pop is coming to the big screen, courtesy of director Antoine Fuqua. Michael, a long-in-the-works biopic of Michael Jackson, will begin production this year at Lionsgate. Coming off the success of the Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, producer Graham King will produce Michael, which promises to depict every aspect of Jackson's troubled life, which ended prematurely at age 50 in 2009.
Capturing Jackson's story within the confines of a feature film will be a tall order. He became a child sensation with his brothers in the Jackson 5 before achieving enormous solo success as an adult, becoming the first Black superstar of the MTV era; his album Thriller remains the best-selling album of all time, with over 70 million copies sold.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Fuqua began his directorial career directing music videos, most notably Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise". The success of that video led to greater opportunities; he made his feature debut with Chow Yun-fat's international film debut, the 1998 actioner The Replacement Killers, and achieved widespread acclaim with the 2001 Denzel Washington thriller Training Day, for which Washington won Best Actor at the Academy Awards.
Principal photography on Michael will begin later this year. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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