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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Why the Sequel to Michael Might Land in Record Time · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: If you saw Michael, the Michael Jackson movie and most
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  Speaker 2: successful biopic in cinematic history, you might recall it ended
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  Speaker 2: with the words his story continues, and we know when.
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  Speaker 3: Cameras could start rolling very soon on that sequel with
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  Speaker 3: the studio behind it, hoping that actually could start shooting
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  Speaker 3: us early as the end of this year or Q
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  Speaker 3: one of twenty twenty seven at the latest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, Michael has earned a billion dollars, so they
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  Speaker 4: want to strike while the iron's hot. And it also
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  Speaker 4: happened to have already shot some of the footage that
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  Speaker 4: they're going to use.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first movie ended with the nineteen eighty seven
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  Speaker 3: Bad World tour, and the word is the sequel will
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  Speaker 3: address the more controversial aspects of his life that directly
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  Speaker 3: follow that era.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm hearing. And they'd already produced some material
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  Speaker 2: that takes place in those years, but scrapped it due
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  Speaker 2: to legal disputes, and will now incorporate that footage into
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  Speaker 2: the sequel for now. Michael IWI, which is a working title,
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  Speaker 2: is expected in theaters by the end of twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.