Michael Jackson has been trending for all the wrong reasons with fans worldwide taking to social media to share their outrage.
So what’s all the fuss about?
CNN: “With all the controversy over #OscarsSoWhite, now may not have been the best time to announce that a white actor has been cast as African-American pop star Michael Jackson.”
British actor Joseph Fiennes will play Michael Jackson in a one-off comedy special for Sky Arts, called Elizabeth, Michael & Marlon, starring Joseph Fiennes as Jackson, Stockard Channing as Taylor and Brian Cox as Brando. The dramatizsation centers around a fabled road trip in which Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando tried to get home to Los Angeles from New York after the September 11 terrorist attacks.
I'm TOTALLY on board with Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson IF AND ONLY IF Angela Bassett is cast as Elizabeth Taylor
— Orlando Jones (@TheOrlandoJones) January 27, 2016
Too crazy for words! #JosephFiennes playing Michael Jackson! What next? Tom Cruise playing Muhammad Ali? Uma Thurman playing Rosa Parks?
— Duncan Whitehead (@DuncanWhitehead) January 27, 2016
Read about Joseph Fiennes playing Michael Jackson, and checked the calendar. Thought I slept 2 months & it was April 1st.
— Jay Nickerson (@doodlinmunkyboy) January 27, 2016
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