It’s nice to see that this rich woman will be able to monetize her experiences in prison unlike a majority of her fellow inmates.

The real scandal was how he was able to get away with this for so long and the fact that it usually takes multiple victims before these types of allegations are taken seriously.

His skin color would be the easy part. By 2001 he’d had so much plastic surgery that his facial features were no longer the least bit natural. That said, everything about this project and the casting is a terrible idea.

No, but the fact is that he was one. The movie is based on him not some random or fictional person. I’m biracial, that comes as a surprise to pretty much everyone when they know me long enough to meet my Black mother, yet I’d still be offended if they made a movie based on my life and hired a completely white actress.

Let’s make this movie the clusterfuck it is destined to be. Joseph as Michael Jackson, Angela as Elizabeth Taylor and Fat Joe as Marlon Brando. I’m just riffing here but there’s so much potential to make this movie even more of a hot flaming mess.

Um, being a person of color doesn’t actually mean you have to be visibly brown. People of color with albinism are still people of color. People of color with vitiligo are still people of color. The fuck you mean?

Before this casting: Ralph>Joseph

Why is he “as shocked as you may be”? I suspect he screen tested. I doubt he was approached randomly. Also, is the lesser or the greater Fiennes?

He acts like he was walking down the street and got plucked and thrown into a van and told he has to play the GD part.

It also sounds like a book to read, not a movie. I just can’t imagine, that even with good casting, anyone can portray those three people without it venturing into caricature, especially all 3 at the same time.

“I’m as shocked as you may be.”

I would 300% prefer to see Flex (hilariously) play him again than this travesty of a casting decision. The fact is, he wasn’t a white man. He as a Black man who had a bunch of disfiguring plastic surgery and had vitiligo and/or bleached his skin. That doesn’t mean he was white and should be played by a white person…

If that’s the case, they should hire Rachel Dolezal as a consultant.

Somebody needs to put a stop to this shitshow. On top of being racist and ridiculous, it really thumbs its nose at his legacy and his influence on black culture. He was the biggest star ever, to be honest, we in the “third world” loved him just as much too. Growing up in Guyana, MJ was one of the few things my cousins…

Abraham Attah is so adorable (and I’m still pissed he didn’t get nominated for an Oscar). And thank god Idris (I like to think we are on a first name basis) won for Beasts of No Nation. It is just further highlighting the ridiculousness of him not getting nominated for an Academy Award for it.

“Welcome to diverse TV,”

According to his own logic he should go drop his kids off at daddy Ray-Js house since apparently he owns them

Also his daughter is the child of a world famous musician and supermodel, and I don’t recall ever seeing a picture of even the back of her head, even since his passing. That’s masterful work in this day and age.

You know it's slim pickings when people look back wistfully at the Mitt Romney days.

They endorsed Kasich? Oh sure, he’s SUPER reasonable, as long as you completely ignore his efforts to roll back reproductive rights for women.