ok, ok...it might be true...the rumors about MJ's film. Here's the article from: http://story.news.yahoo.c...s_eo/13764

Jackson's Dream Car

Tue Mar 23, 7:55 PM ET

By Joal Ryan

Some people really want to direct. Michael Jackson really wanted to be a car.

Kevin Smith, who really is a director, tells Playboy that a producer once approached him with a project in which Jackson would play a man (a stretch, we know) who morphs into a car.

"And this little boy [the Jackson character hangs out with] gets into the car and drives him around," Smith says in the mag's April issue.

The title: Hot Rod.

"In retrospect, I'd love to make that movie," he tells Playboy. "But it wouldn't be anything like the version Jackson or the studio wanted to see."

Smith's latest film, Jersey Girl--which stars Ben Affleck and hardly features any Jennifer Lopez, why it's as if she's not even in it (as the new ad campaign assures us)--opens Friday.

Sadly, there's no opening date yet for Hot Rod.

In other Jackson developments:

While the Grammy-winning pop star has long struggled to forge a feature-film career, he has never lost his knack for filing lawsuits.

The prolific litigant is at it again, suing a New Jersey businessman over allegedly misappropriated memorabilia and adding defendants to an ongoing lawsuit over his infamous caught-on-tape charter flight from Las Vegas to California.

The memorabilia lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Los Angeles. Eleven pages of its legalese fun can be found on the Smoking Gun.

In short, the suit accuses Henry Vaccaro, an entrepreneur in Bruce Springsteen (news)'s own Asbury Park, of wrongly taking possession of old Jackson props, photos, personal notes and assorted doodads in a dispute with other Jackson family members.

The goodies, reportedly now sold and shipped to a European buyer, can be viewed for a fee--$1.95 for a so-called two-day access pass--on two Vaccaro-owned Website domains, theJacksonVault.com and MichaelJacksonCircus.com. Jackson's lawsuit seeks to shut down the sites.

In an interview with CNN earlier this month, Vaccaro boasted he had everything from gold records to Tito Jackson's "intimate" divorce papers.

"This is the largest collection in the world, because they were collecting it internally," Vaccaro told CNN.

Vaccaro came into the largesse as the result of a 2002 settlement with Jackson family heads, Katherine and Joe Jackson, and sons, Jermaine and Tito.

But Michael Jackson (news) contends that since he, in a twist, wasn't involved in the legal tiff, his song lyrics, sketches, unopened fan mail, etc., shouldn't have been part of the bounty that was shipped from a family warehouse in California to Vaccaro's warehouse in New Jersey.

Jackson and his lawyers, meanwhile, are also suing mad at the travel agent who booked him on the flight that winged him to a mug-shot shoot in Santa Barbara last November as child-molestation charges loomed.

They've added agent Cynthia Montgomery, her travel company, an executive with charter service XtraJet and an aviation firm to a lawsuit that previously targeted XtraJet as a whole for the on-the-sly video that captured Jackson in flight.

A federal investigation has been launched to find out who was responsible for the hidden-camera hijinks. XtraJet's camp has said nobody Jackson has sued so far was responsible.

Montgomery made headlines herself last month when she (natch) sued Jackson for stiffing her on the $18,000 charter fee.

What with all the lawsuits, Jackson may be relieved to learn he's neither required nor expected to attend his next scheduled court date for the child-molestation case.

The Apr. 2 hearing will be a procedural affair, with both sides to set a preliminary hearing date that may not be needed if a grand jury, due to convene Thursday, indicts Jackson.

Jackson faces seven molestation counts and two counts of liquoring up a minor. He has pleaded innocent to all charges.

And, finally, there's one less legal worry for Jackson. A Los Angeles civil-rights attorney has failed in her latest bid to have the entertainer's three children removed from his home.

Camera-ready lawyer Gloria Allred, however, is vowing to pursue the case with another judge. Allred has been on Jackson's parenting case since he showed off the spirit of infant son Blanket to fans in Germany in November 2002 (his story). The incident is also known as the time he dangled a baby from a fourth-floor hotel balcony.