T here are a lot of moving pieces that go into making something as massive as director Antoine Fuqua’s Michael Jackson biopic. Unfortunately for all involved in this 2025 movie,

The highly anticipated Michael Jackson biopic, Michael , has hit a big roadblock as the production team prepares for extensive reshoots of the film's third act. This is all taking place due to a long-forgotten agreement tied to the Jackson family that’s now come back to haunt the project.

Well, the third act of the Thriller artist‘s biopic covers this issue at length, with director Antoine Fuqua depicting Jackson in the movie as a “naïve victim of the money-grubbing Chandlers” juxtaposed with a scene of Jordan’s father “threatening to leverage his son’s accusations to destroy his ex-wife and Jackson’s career.

The team behind an upcoming big-budget Michael Jackson biopic is racing to rewrite, reshoot, and re-edit the film’s third act after they discovered it violated a decades-old agreement with one of Jackson’s underage accusers.

The upcoming Michael Jackson movie, which finished filming in May 2024, reportedly requires major reshoots after it was discovered that a past settlement barred a former molestation accuser from having their story be dramatized,