Johnny Depp’s unmade Michael Jackson film resurrected as musical

Johnny Depp’s unmade Michael Jackson film is being resurrected as a musical, advised from the angle of the singer’s sequined glove – and it sounds magical.

Aptly named For the Love of a Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson, as advised by his Glove, the Depp-produced present is described as a “look into the strange forces that shaped Michael and the scandals that bedeviled his reputation”.

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If it does not already sound excellent, it would additionally see actors star alongside life-size puppets of the Jackson 5, Donny Osmond, Emmanuel Lewis, Corey Feldman and Bubbles the Chimp.

The musical is written by Julien Nitzberg, who was initially requested by a TV community to make a movie about Jackson’s life, however the funding was pulled after they could not agree on how you can handle the allegations of kid intercourse abuse made towards the singer (through Page Six).

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Nitzberg advised the publication that he then determined to write down this concept for the stage. He’s additionally labored with Depp’s manufacturing firm Infinitum Nihil on a biopic of 1960s one-hit marvel Tiny Tim.

For the Love of a Glove opens on January 25 on the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan theatre in Los Angeles.

It was introduced final week that Bohemian Rhapsody producer Graham King is planning a Michael Jackson biopic to comply with the Oscar-winning Queen film.