'Leaving Neverland' director Dan Reed slams Michael Jackson biopic, calling it ‘complete whitewash’ of the pop star's life: 'I don’t know how they are not ashamed'
“It’s an out-and-out attempt to completely rewrite the allegations and dismiss them out of hand, and contains complete lies,”. “You never even see him alone with any boys, when it is a matter of fact that he shared his bed with small children for many years.”omits any mention of the accusations of child molestation levied against Jackson over the years. Jackson's estate has approval of the project.
“You have some of the really top minds and top talent in Hollywood working on this, and I don’t know how they are not ashamed,” Reed told. “In one scene Jackson tucks kids into their sleeping bags—how do they not throw up when they do these scenes?”) is producing. Jackson’s real-life nephew Jaafar Jackson will make his debut starring as the King of Pop.
, Reed's 2019 documentary, focuses on the allegations made by Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who both claim that Jackson sexually abused them when they were children in the late ‘80s and early-to-mid ‘90s. Reed hasthat Jackson’s estate managers, Branca and John McClain, are “very aggressively” defending their commercial asset that continues to make them money after the singer’s death.
“They are trying to make out that he was a saint, and yet he was a predatory pedophile who abused children,” Reed alleges.Colman Domingo is playing Joe Jackson in Michael biopic to 'find out what's underneath the hat'Here’s every Taylor Swift movie and documentary in chronological order
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