{"id":55099,"date":"2023-01-30T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T01:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=55099"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T01:05:59","slug":"michael-jackson-to-be-played-by-his-nephew-in-biographical-film-check-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/michael-jackson-to-be-played-by-his-nephew-in-biographical-film-check-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson to be played by his nephew in biographical film. Check out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new biopic about the life and career of <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> is in production. The feature film titled &#8220;<strong>Michael<\/strong>&#8221; is directed by <strong>Antoine Fuqua<\/strong> and will star the King of Pop&#8217;s nephew,<strong> Jaafar Jackson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The son of<strong> Jermaine Jackson<\/strong>, Michael&#8217;s third oldest brother, he inherited the family&#8217;s talents and singing. Jaafar was confirmed in the role of the famous singer in the movie by the director of the feature film himself. In a post on social media, Fuqua wrote:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1620106969871966209\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michael Jackson will be played by his 26-year old nephew Jaafar Jackson in upcoming biopic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MFQuesETKA\">pic.twitter.com\/MFQuesETKA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1620106969871966209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>Proud to announce Jaafar Jackson as Michael, the cinematic event that explores the journey of the man who became the King of Pop<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>You may also like: <\/p>\n<p>The director shared the news alongside a photo of Jaafar in <strong>rehearsals<\/strong> for the highly anticipated film. The young man also shared the photo and wrote:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>&#8220;<em><strong>I am humbled and honored to bring my Uncle Michael&#8217;s story to life. To all the fans around the world, I will see you all soon<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inquirerdotnet\/status\/1620212875636920321\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018I\u2019LL SEE YOU SOON\u2019<\/p>\n<p>LOOK: The late music icon Michael Jackson\u2019s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, will portray the King of Pop in the upcoming biopic titled \u201cMichael.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V8HSFuXpOA\">pic.twitter.com\/V8HSFuXpOA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/inquirerdotnet\/status\/1620212875636920321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Michael&#8221; movie will not begin <strong>filming<\/strong> until later this year 2023 and is expected to tackle much of the King of Pop&#8217;s life story and career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new biopic about the life and career of Michael Jackson is in production. The feature film titled &#8220;Michael&#8221; is directed by Antoine Fuqua and will star the King of Pop&#8217;s nephew, Jaafar Jackson. The son of Jermaine Jackson, Michael&#8217;s third oldest brother, he inherited the family&#8217;s talents and singing. Jaafar was confirmed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":55103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,7,1361],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-news","9":"category-social-network"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55099"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=55099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}