What ‘Michael’ Gets Wrong: 6 Inaccuracies in the New Michael Jackson Biopic
From timeline issues to missing family members, here's some of the factual problems in the movie's presentation of Jackson's storied career.
Black News 
Despite the frequency at which they seem to be made, making a music biopic is no easy task. How do you condense a musician’s lifespan into two hours? What truths inevitably end up getting dropped or fudged for the sake of crafting a compelling narrative?
Michael Jackson fans will be asking themselves such questions when Michael, the new film about the King of Pop, moonwalks into theaters this Friday, April 24. The long-anticipated movie, starring Michael’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the title role, promises a look at how Jackson ascended to untold heights as a singer, dancer and overall superstar, from his breakthrough as the leader of the sibling troupe The Jackson 5 in the ’70s until his first tour as a solo artist in 1988. Along the way, viewers see how Michael made the transition to a legendary solo career, culminating with the 1982 release of Thriller, the best-selling album in pop music history.
No feature film is going to get everything right, and the film has already courted controversy over some of the details it won’t show. But Jackson was of course one of the most famous people on the planet in his lifetime, and getting dates wrong or crafting not-entirely-accurate situations will certainly galvanize the people who have their vision of what Michael could or should have been.
For curious new fans or fastidious fact-checkers alike, we’ve put together a guide of some of the most glaring errors in Michael‘s narrative. (This list, of course, contains spoilers.)
