The new Michael Jackson biopic. Why now? – podcast

By Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Owen Myers and Lanre Bakare; produced by Alex Atack, Eli Block and Ross Burns; executive producer Homa Khaleeli•The Guardian Music

A new blockbuster film about the controversial singer could make $1bn worldwide. Owen Myers and Lanre Bakare explain what it says about Jackson’s legacyIf it’s a big year for Michael Jackson fans, it’s a mammoth one for his estate. This canny operation has turned the $500m debt owed by Jackson when he was alive into a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars following his death in 2009.There has been a jukebox musical and a Cirque du Soleil extravaganza – not to mention dozens of themed events, shows and bottomless brunches memorialising him as “the greatest star ever to be born”. Continue reading...

A new blockbuster film about the controversial singer could make $1bn worldwide. Owen Myers and Lanre Bakare explain what it says about Jackson’s legacy

If it’s a big year for Michael Jackson fans, it’s a mammoth one for his estate. This canny operation has turned the $500m debt owed by Jackson when he was alive into a business generating hundreds of millions of dollars following his death in 2009.

There has been a jukebox musical and a Cirque du Soleil extravaganza – not to mention dozens of themed events, shows and bottomless brunches memorialising him as “the greatest star ever to be born”.

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