Filmmaker Dan Reed says the biopic directed by Antoine Fuqua will “glorify a man who abused children.”
Reed called out what he perceived as the “deafening silence” of press reaction to the film.
How will you depict what happens next?
Michael Jackson.Kevin Mazur/WireImage
That message is: If a pedophile is rich and popular enough, society will forgive him."
He was also a polarizing figure, facing controversy and several allegations of child sex abuse.
In 2005, he was tried and acquitted of charges in connection with accusations that he molested a 13-year-old.
Director Dan Reed.Jerod Harris/Getty
Jackson died in 2009 at the age of 50.
Lionsgate didn’t immediately respond to EW’s request for comment on Reed’s op-ed.
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