Black Entertainment : JOSEPH FIENNES TO PLAY MICHAEL JACKSON

[Kemetstry]

Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson in 9/11 road-trip drama
Sky Arts will screen the one-off drama, co-starring Stockard Channing as Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Cox as Marlon Brando, about the trio’s supposed road trip west…
theguardian.com|By Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Please tell me this is a hoax




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[Reina7]

The Michael Jackson Estate needs to boycott this very disrespectful movie.

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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... we can't have nuttin.


Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson shows race problems before Oscars row

Casting of white actor to play the black icon in a ‘post-9/11 road trip’ tale shows us Hollywood has learned nothing from the #OscarsSoWhite controversy


... The internet has been ablaze questioning the wisdom of Fiennes going forth to play the King of Pop in Elizabeth, Michael and Marlon, the tale of an alleged road trip taken by Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. But according to the British production cable channel Sky Arts, the casting is a done deal, as the half-hour comedy was shot last year. Though a story surfaced this week quoting Fiennes as if he just received the script “the other day”, the project is already in post-production ...


http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...s-michael-jackson-race-problems-oscarssowhite

Michael Jackson and Joseph Fiennes: Can a white actor capture his blackness? Photograph: Allstar & Rex Features

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[skuderjaymes]

Joseph Fiennes to play Michael Jackson in 9/11 road-trip drama
Sky Arts will screen the one-off drama, co-starring Stockard Channing as Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Cox as Marlon Brando, about the trio’s supposed road trip west…
theguardian.com|By Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Please tell me this is a hoax




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hey.. it's their production.. they can cast who they want. We don't own MJ.. he belongs to the world. It would be interesting to see Joseph Fiennes play MJ.

 

[Kemetstry]

hey.. it's their production.. they can cast who they want. We don't own MJ.. he belongs to the world. It would be interesting to see Joseph Fiennes play MJ.

There are any number of black actors that could have played this part. This is BS!





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