Chris Wasser
speaker
585 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Chris Wasser’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And given the success of Bohemian Rhapsody, another cartoon as far as I'm concerned, he must have thought to himself... I like that in its defense, but... Okay, right.
There were people who enjoyed the film, I'll give you that.
But given the success, Graham King thought to himself, who else can I make a biopic about?
And it was his idea initially, after he saw the success of MJ the Musical and the Cirque du Soleil show and given the soar in Michael Jackson's album sales, let's make a film about Michael Jackson.
Now, it's no surprise that when he started calling around and knocking on the doors of major studios around the US, they said, absolutely not.
Because it is dangerous because the most talented filmmakers in the room were thinking, how do we tell that story without it being so awkward, without upsetting people?
There's things that we're not allowed to mention.
How do we?
make a film.
You had to ignore those things, basically.
So he didn't have any luck to begin with.
But eventually Lionsgate decided we'll foot the bill for this thing, but we need an international distributor.
They collaborated then with Universal in getting this project off the ground.
And there were a team there, a big team at the Jackson estate, the Michael Jackson estate, who believed that this thing could work.
And off they went to try and get it made.
Yeah, I mean, look, if I can put some perspective on it, 150 million is potentially 50 to 100 million less than what you'd pay for a superhero film.
So you're thinking to yourself, where is all that money going?
Are there going to be some special effects in this film?
There are, obviously, because again, you're reconstructing these
huge concerts, in one case, a concert at Wembley in 1988.
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