Mark Binelli

No, because in a fairly unprecedented event, they completed principal photography, the movie was done, and only at that point, somehow, did they realize the settlement with Chandler and his family, signed way back in...

1993, had a clause prohibiting either side from ever depicting or discussing anything about the settlement or their relationship.

Somehow this had been completely overlooked, and they didn't realize this existed until after the film was completed.

Yes, yes.

So they had to reconvene, bring the cast and everyone back together, and shoot new material and completely cut out the final act of the film, which covered the accusation and Michael's, in the telling of the film, exoneration.

That's all gone now.

It says nothing about it.

Very much like the musical, it stops well before any of those accusations took place.

In the case of the movie, they stop at the very beginning of the bad tour in 1988.

So there's plenty of distance between then and the first inklings of something more sinister.

It's very much a hero's journey.

It's Michael rising up and triumphing over... You know, his father is really the villain of the film, Joseph Jackson.

Have you seen the movie, Mark?

I have seen it.

I had not seen it... My story came out before the movie was released.

I wasn't invited to a screening, but I saw it yesterday.

I mean, when your producer told me I needed to see the movie before taping this, I was...

I'll admit, I was feeling a bit resentful.

I did not want to see this movie.

And I was very surprised to say that I didn't hate it.