Re: VH1 graba una película sobre MJ + Más datos, fechas, teaser...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :cuñao mirad a 'Michael & Lisa' (abajo)
Por cierto, ¿tienen pensado llamarla
Man in the mirror?o es solo una confusion mia :miedo:
Cameras rolling on unauthorized Jackson TV movie
Thriller of a role
by Kevin Williamson
Calgary Sun
The question is as plain as the nose on his face. Why would anyone want to play Michael Jackson?
LOVE ... Flex Alexander and, as Lisa Marie Presley, Krista Rae on the Calgary set of the Michael Jackson biography Man In The Mirror.
— Chris Large, Special to the Sun
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 yesterday, the 11th day of the 18-day shoot.
Calgarian Krista Rae portrays Jackson’s ex-wife Lisa Marie Presley. Rae, who recently moved back to Calgary after spending the past three years in Vancouver, studied interviews with Presley to research her role. While the romance always boggled most minds, Rae says there was nothing complicated about the marriage. “I watched an interview she did with Diane Sawyer,” Rae recalls.
“She said he was very charismatic and charming and she fell in love with him.”
Convincing 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.”
HONOUR ROLE
Of course, on any Jackson biopic, you should expect strange sights. But none yesterday was odder than the sight of Alexander, dressed as Jackson, hoisting an Emmy.
The award, brought to the set by co-producer Chad Oakes, went to Nomadic Pictures, for its film The Incredible Mrs. Richie. It won for TV special this past weekend at a pre-Daytime Emmy ceremony in Los Angeles. Writer-director Paul Johansson also picked up a trophy for his script.
The rest of the Emmys will be handed out this Friday on NBC. Joking about the win, Oakes says, “We got out of L.A. as quick as we could because we thought they must have made a mistake in the ballots and they’d want it back.”
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LOVE ... Flex Alexander and, as Lisa Marie Presley, Krista Rae on the Calgary set of the Michael Jackson biography Man In The Mirror.