Seems like this would be the most challenging music biopic of them all to keep honest for a  deep dive.

An NPR program a few years back tackled the subject of Michael Jackson and why Black people have been disinclined to turn away from his, pedophilia, publicity stunts, sham marriages, skin lightening and the whole freak show be damned.

But if you don’t deal with those dark corners of his personality and psychology, you’re “whitewashing” him in the worst way.

This looks triumphalist, a fantasia sanitizing the image, like Baz L’s “Elvis.”

Would that play? Because swinging and missing at an honest take on MJ would be cringe beyond belief