Premeiring on VH1!!!!

I just saw this a minute ago! I cant believe this!

I cant wait. I gotta look up more information on this!

I Think it's going to premire sometime this month or next...just keep watching VH1 for info.



Canada Makes Unauthorized Jackson TV Movie


CALGARY, Alberta (AP) The question is as plain as the nose on his face. Why would anyone want to play Michael Jackson? True, there are few roles as enigmatic and challenging as that of the pop icon-turned-accused child molester, but there are also few as controversial and potentially career-damaging.

On the Calgary set of "Man In The Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story" a VH1 biopic set to air in the U.S. and Canada this summer the task of portraying the King of Pop falls to Flex Alexander.

The actor, who stars in the sitcom "One on One," admits he didn't leap or moonwalk, for that matter at the chance to play Jackson.

"At first I laughed when I heard about it," he admits, decked out in full Jackson regalia.

He wasn't alone. When director Allan Moyle ("Pump Up The Volume," "New Waterford Girl") first heard about the project, he didn't bother reading it.

"I figured it would be all guts and gore."

Eventually Moyle relented and was "pleasantly surprised," he says.

"VH1 gets a lot of credit. The easy route would be, you know, `What a freak.'"

Instead, both Alexander and Moyle promise a balanced, even sympathetic, portrait of Jackson. "We're giving him a fair portrayal," Alexander says.

"It's a controversial role only from the media, which has been crucifying him. They've already judged him like he was already convicted."

So instead of delving into bizarre reports say, sleeping in an oxygen tank or buying the elephant man's bones viewers should expect a movie that adheres strictly to documented facts.

A co-production between Calgary-based Nomadic Pictures and Los Angeles-based production company Blueprint Entertainment, Man In The Mirror begins when Jackson is 10 years old and follows "slices of his life" to the present day, Moyle explains.

That includes Jackson's Neverland Ranch, which the Calgary Zoo was doubling for this week, more than half-way through the 18-day shoot.

Persuading audiences of that is only one of the hurdles Alexander who admits "It still hasn't hit me that I'm playing Michael Jackson" has to overcome. Another is enduring the extensive make-up that takes Jackson through three phases: his Thriller days, the mid-'90s when he was with Presley and, lastly, the chalk-skinned Jackson people see now.

But Alexander says it's the pop star's voice not his face that has been the hardest quality to replicate.

"People think it's just talking at a high pitch, but he doesn't have a range. Sometimes the tone is deeper. That's been the toughest part."

I would love to see it too.

Alright alright
But is it ACCURATE? i wanna know their sources

look at these pics, i laughed my azz off! lol






Look at joe! lol

those pictures...oh my goodness. they should have just gotten amy poehler from SNL to play him in the latter years, she looks more like him than this guy does.

Luv4oneanotha said:

He looks like Micheal Myers from "Halloween" when he twists his head to one side after he kills someone. LOL.

vainandy said:

Luv4oneanotha said:

Why am I reminded of "Homer S: Portrait of an Assgrabber"?

Supernova said:

Why the long face?

Oh my god. That is supposed to be Michael Jackson????? That is supposed to b Joe Jackson????? ))))

How about Samuel L. Jackson to play Superman then. I can actaully see it happening now:)

OMFG

in order to make the movie accurate you'd have to hire 10 different michael jackson impersonaters lol

this is old news..we were talkin bout this @ KOP months ago...this isn't gonna b a good movie tho..based on appearances alone.

I'm still waiting for the inevitable:

Billy's Jeans: The Many Faces of Michael Jackson

Coming sooner or later to a theatre near you.

What is this "accuracy" and "honesty" of the portrayal that everyone keeps talking about? Mike was TAUGHT how to lie, by the industry, and he's been doing it ever since.

Nine years old??

Broken nose??

Vitiligo??

"Married"?? (as in being in love)

Two nose jobs??


OK all bullshitting aside, what is the timeline for this movie, just the 90's? What's the main focus gonna be, the music, the legal woes, other personal/family tidbits. It should be interesting, but Flex was a horrible choice. They should have gotten the dude that played him in the tv movie. I forgot his name....

taught how to right...

lets not drift off topic

Yeah they filmed it at my city. One of my friends works at the Calgary Zoo, where they filmed scenes for the 'Neverland Ranch' hehe.

And I had seen pictures in the newspaper of that actor in full MJ garb (red shirt, fedora) but I had not seen him in that ghastly white facepaint

SO looking forward to this movie!

I'm a Huge MJ fan, But I just dunno about this movie. I hope it they put MJ in a positive light, Instead of a negative one.

& MJ looks better than that impersonator!!!

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/

go here and click on MJ"s POOR DAMN face--its a history of his face....very interesting read and view!

purplegypsy said:

Not accurate. By the age of 21 he'd already had his first nose job. By 1984 he'd had another one.

Adisa said:

um...i think it's just meant as an amusing read - wasn't really dissecting the years on here...just the comparisons of the pictures in each ara.

purplegypsy said:

I know, but you have some rabid MJ fans who believe just about anything. Not dissin' you or anything.

Oh lord,after seeing those pics from the movie,I don't know whether to laugh or cry

So pathetic.

The only good picture of him I've seen so far,