April 24, 2026, 5:02 a.m. CT
According to the forged record posted on the Internet Movie Database, the new Michael Jackson biopic, “Michael,” contains actors within the roles of Liza Minnelli, Mick Jagger, Diana Ross and John Lennon, amongst different celebrities.
Seemingly conspicuously absent from that roll name: Lisa Marie Presley.
The only child of Elvis Presley, the so-called King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Lisa Marie Presley married Michael Jackson, the so-called King of Pop, on May 26, 1994, in a personal ceremony within the Dominican Republic.
Their divorce, attributed to “irreconcilable differences,” was finalized some two years later, on Aug. 20, 1996, in Los Angeles.
One may count on that the much-scrutinized union of two of probably the most high-profile names in twentieth century leisure can be alluded to in a biographical movement image about Michael Jackson. But “Michael” (which stars Michael’s nephew, Jaafar Jackson, because the grownup singer) restricts its focus to probably the most profitable and artistically productive of the singer’s glory days, from his childhood within the Jackson 5 within the late Nineteen Sixties to the beginning of the “Bad” tour in 1987.
Produced with the cooperation of the Jackson property and Jackson household, the movie concludes earlier than the Lisa Marie marriage, the accusations of kid sexual abuse, the police raid of his Neverland Ranch, and the opposite troubling or sensationalistic parts of the Jackson story that might emerge within the Nineties and comply with the singer till his demise in 2009.
According to reviews, the movie initially included a few of this materials, however that footage was scrapped.
Perhaps “Mick Jagger” and a few of these different celebrities listed on IMDb additionally landed on the reducing room flooring; as a result of whereas Larenz Tate as Motown founder Berry Gordy, Kendrick Sampson as producer/composer Quincy Jones and Liv Symone as Gladys Knight get moments to shine, many of the different IMDb-listed celebs aren’t seen onscreen and are not even listed within the credit of the particular movie. (The presence within the Database forged record of not simply “Mick Jagger” and “Liza Minnelli” however “Andy Warhol,” “Robert Mapplethorpe,” “David Bowie” and Studio 54 proprietor “Steve Rubell” suggests an excised Michael-at-the-disco interlude that maybe could floor as a Blu-ray bonus characteristic.)
Also not within the movie: Janet Jackson.
Considering the movie’s timeframe, Lisa Marie’s absence is not any shock; however a viewer may moderately count on Janet Jackson — the youngest of the ten Jackson siblings, and the household’s different solo famous person — to be included, alongside such brothers as Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon (performed, as a child, by younger Memphis actor Jaylen Lyndon Hunter).
According to a Variety interview with the fifth of the Jackson kids, La Toya Jackson (who’s featured prominently within the movie, and is an government producer), Janet Jackson “kindly declined” participation within the movie, “so you have to respect her wishes.”
