\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\tL-R: Jaafar Jackson as Michael Jackson and director Antoine Fuqua on the set of \u2018Michael\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGlen Wilson\/Lionsgate<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \n\t\u201cUnless you can truly take your time, let\u2019s go back to the beginning and really show people who he was on the stage. He\u2019s a superhero on the stage. Just like a human being, movies have the power of empathy to just say this is a human being. No one is perfect,\u201d added Fuqua. \u201cIt was important to take the audience through a process of how do you get to wherever it\u2019s going to go in a second movie; for people to get a bigger idea of his personality and what shaped him.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOriginally surpassing three and a half hours, the first cut of Michael<\/em> reportedly ended with an accuser, whose settlement with the singer\u2019s estate guaranteed they would never be dramatized. The Michael Jackson estate, when greenlighting the movie, overlooked this detail.<\/p>\n \n\tWith the biopic undergoing 22 additional shooting days last May to film a new ending, Deadline reported that Lionsgate was considering splitting the film into two parts.<\/p>\n \n\tAfter Jackson was charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of intoxicating a minor in 2003, he denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty before being acquitted on all counts in 2005. Following Jackson\u2019s death in 2009, other accusers have come forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n![\"'Michael'director](\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\")
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