Lifetime has a new TV movie in preproduction about Michael Jackson's final days.
The film – tentatively titled Michael Jackson: Searching For Neverland – is based on the book Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days. Like that book, the film will be told through the eyes of his bodyguards.
Veteran Michael Jackson impersonator Navi, who's widely considered to be one of the best in the industry, will star as the pop icon in his acting debut.
[Michael Jackson impersonator Navi]
The TV movie follows on from other unauthorised Lifetime biopics on stars such as Whitney Houston, Aaliyah and Elizabeth Taylor. There's also a movie based on Britney Spears' life due to air on Lifetime next month.
This news was revealed on the day a Michael Jackson-centric episode of Sky Arts' Urban Myths was pulled from broadcast over its controversial casting.
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Urban Myths has faced whitewashing claims from the public since Joseph Fiennes is white and Michael was not, and the singer's daughter Paris Jackson made her feelings pretty clear.
"I'm so incredibly offended by it, as i'm sure plenty of people are as well, and it honestly makes me want to vomit," she tweeted.
She added that Michael "would never have wanted" to be portrayed by a white actor since he had immense "pride in his roots".
But after Sky pulled the episode, Paris thanked them for taking the family's views into consideration, saying they all "really do appreciate it".
Chad L Coleman from The Walking Dead will play Michael's bodyguard Bill Whitfield in Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland, which begins filming next month in Los Angeles.
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