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The Inevitable Even More Inevitable than I'd Inevitably Imagined

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (24)



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Sony studios has just paid $50 goddamn million for the 80 hours of rehearsal footage filmed for the concerts that Michael Jackson was preparing for in London before he died. And, of course, 80 hours of rehearsal footage has got to be worth one two-hour movie, right? The studios thought so — there was a bidding frenzy for the footage, but amazingly, Sony — who owns the rights to Jackson’s catalogue — won the rights in the end.

Kenny Ortega (the small-brained wunderkind behind High School Musical) is already editing down the footage and compiling the film. In addition to featuring Jackson in various stages of pant, the movie will also contain three new music videos, including an alternative version of “Thriller,” and a hyper-eerie feeling that we’re watching a man in the days before his death. Yes! We will all proclaim. He looks skinny, but he still sure can move for a 50-year-old days away from death by anesthesia. It’ll be sad. It’ll be eye-popping. It’ll be dazzling. But most of all, it’ll just feel creepy.

The footage was meant to be shown in 3D, but it’s not yet known whether the feature film will be in 3D. We can only hope. Because, really, the only way to get the true experience is to see Jackson’s plastic molded, emaciated body in all three dimensions.

Maybe they can splice together some rehearsal footage of Walter Cronkite for the voice-over narration; Farrah Fawcett can play the love interest, and Joshua Jackson and Jeff Goldblum has play zombies in the new “Thriller” video.









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Comments

Oh for fuck sakes.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at July 20, 2009 7:05 PM

Not a fucking chance. I'll go rent faces of death instead.

Posted by: admin at July 20, 2009 7:07 PM

Give it a rest already! I loved Michael Jackson before he went full wacko, but seriously, is he even cold yet? Jeebus wept. The really sick thing? Just as he will be this years best selling freakin' artist (when was the last time he cut an album, when?, this movie will make a gazillion dollars. Sick and twisted.

Posted by: Eyvi at July 20, 2009 7:07 PM

Hahaha JJ and Jeff as zombies, perfect!

Posted by: Alli at July 20, 2009 7:11 PM

Oh yeah, this'll just be incredibly entertaining. A few hours of a middle-aged elf-man trying to recapture the glory days by desperately trying to get into shape. Screams popcorn blockbuster. It'll be a smash hit. The next Pirates. Not sad and uncomfortable at all. I just can't wait to spend ten dollars and sit in a dark room with a bunch of strangers, watching this epic benchmark of modern cinema on the ol' big screen. I'm very happy this is coming into existence.

I gotta go shower, get some of this sarcasm off me.

Posted by: chayes at July 20, 2009 7:13 PM

I heard there's rehearsal footage of a duet with MJ and the Vienna Boys Choir singing "Beat It". Is this true??? Or is it just some coy attempt at some perverted allusion???

Either way, when do tickets go on pre-sale?

Posted by: PeevedMovieBuff at July 20, 2009 7:48 PM

chayes, step away from the shower. That stank smelled good.

Posted by: admin at July 20, 2009 7:50 PM

Sha-koo, indeed.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at July 20, 2009 7:53 PM

Oh, wonderful. Yet another example of how people will bleed the corpse of a celebrity for every last scrap of meat they can get. They own you from the second you become famous to years after you're dead.

Now kids. Who wants to become a celebrity?

Posted by: figgy at July 20, 2009 8:06 PM

Yes,creepy, that's the only word that fits.


What a sad and vulgar age we live in.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at July 20, 2009 8:06 PM

Listen up folks, Sony made a steal by ONLY having to pay 50 goddamn million dollars. This is Michael motherfuckin’ Jackson, this ain’t no newly found footage of the fuckin’ Beatles or newly discovered recordings of Elvis that Sony is trying to sell. This is the goddamn king, Sony is going to make Pablo Escobar type money. My delight is that once again the public will show all those fuckin’ high minded music critics that love sniffing the Beatles sack that they could care less about all the shit that has been printed about Michael Jackson.

Posted by: Guess Who! at July 20, 2009 9:16 PM

This is necrophilia, pure and simple.
Although I heard that the soundtrack got wrecked and so they had to hire other voice talent. Should save them a couple bucks at least.

Posted by: Odnon at July 20, 2009 9:37 PM

As soon as I heard a news report mention in passing that Jackson's rehearsals for his last tour were being filmed with HD cameras, I knew this was only a matter of time.

By the way, most of you guys are Americans, right? Did you hear much about Jade Goody's death over there? Assuming you didn't, she was a celebretard from one of the earlier seasons of our version of Big Brother. She basically got famous for being unbelievably thick-headed - like, colossally pig-ignorant. Since the British public go apeshit over any 'relatable' dumbshit the papparazzi chooses to plaster all over The Sun, she soon became a 'national treasure'. She even had spin-off TV series' of her own - watch her run a beauty parlour in Jade's Salon! It probably bears mentioning at this point that her most recent publicist was Max Clifford.

Well, she got breast cancer. And believe you me, the British public were kept informed about every single moment of her struggle with the disease. Now don't get me wrong - it's a terrible, terrible thing that she got so ill. She left behind kids, which is an awful goddamn shame. I didn't hate her so much as I did the double-whammy of the media feeding the faces of the public with as much Jade-related material as they could get their grubby paws on, and the larger public themselves for seemingly anointing Jade as the patron saint of motherhood, above any and every other woman in the same situation in the UK and worldwide simply because she'd been on the telly.

Well, she passed away on Mother's Day - and I got this awfully creepy feeling that Max Clifford may well have pulled the plug on the life-support machine himself. But I pretty much immediately discarded the thought as too cynical even for me.

Mere weeks later? Clifford is accepting bids for the movie rights to Jade's life story.

No corpse is too warm to start hungrily feeding from, it seems.

Posted by: Dill The Devil at July 20, 2009 9:45 PM

figgy, you're so right - I used to dream of being in the music biz, and famous, and life would be one big party, and then came... the Internet. *cue lightning strike and thunder*

Now, I feel threatened if one of my pals puts a photo of me online.

Posted by: ziggy at July 20, 2009 9:58 PM

But where will they cast Billy Mays?

Posted by: AnnArrogance at July 20, 2009 10:05 PM

@ Figgy:
That is exactly why I have shunned fame and fortune choosing instead anonymity and poverty. Who needs that shit?

@ Ziggy: Word. I don't even have any photos of myself on my Facebook. Jebus, it took me 4 years to use my name posting here! Just the first name at that. Paranoid much?

Posted by: Lindsey with an 'e' at July 20, 2009 10:42 PM

we know WHO you are and WHERE you are, Lindsey with an 'e'.
(it was the 'e' that tipped us off.)

we *will* get you.

you can't hide.
but don't let that stop you.

it's more fun when you try to get away.


(mwahaha)

Posted by: gp at July 21, 2009 12:13 AM

I, for one, would pay very good money to see a film in which Jeff Goldblum plays a zombie.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at July 21, 2009 1:01 AM


Hot cougars? Sensual milfs?
"Cougar Central"? "San Carlos" ? or "San Francisco"?
*** Agelover. c o m *** is the real place that is packed with them.

Posted by: maggielindia at July 21, 2009 2:14 AM

I fear that Sony may have made a good deal by paying for this footage. I hope that they've miscalculated and everybody is celebrating MJ's past, not his recent present, and will not want to be reminded that he had destroyed his face, misplaced his talent, and lost his mind.

What can I say, I'm an optimist.

Posted by: ed newman at July 21, 2009 8:40 AM

Why don't they just reanimate Jackson and put the real thing on tour? They can do that, right? I mean, they did it the first time he died, they can do it again, right? So he's a little more pale and more stuff is falling off of him, so what? He's the King of Pop. Worth every penny.

Posted by: Slash at July 21, 2009 11:35 AM

What? No guffawing sidekick, Ed McMahon hawking solid gold toilets for cash??

Posted by: artgal1990 at July 21, 2009 11:52 AM

.....Ew.

Posted by: Aislinn at July 21, 2009 2:36 PM

lol about the FB photo comments... that reminds me of when I put *ahem* some... naughty pitures up in a FB album when I first joined and didn't have many friends yet... and then my co-workers and family started to find me on there and it had been so long that I'd forgotten about that first album... so I got a lot of questions about it... le sigh... good thing I'm not shy haha :D

if you put your pictures up online... someone WILL find them... hehe

Posted by: Tammers at July 21, 2009 4:44 PM


















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