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Headline: Michael director Antoine Fuqua confirms a third of footage was scrapped from movie
Caption: The biographical film, starring Jaafar Jackson as his uncle, was delayed by a year and underwent millions of pounds of reshoots after the team discovered they could not depict the 1993 child abuse allegations against Jackson due to a clause in a legal settlement between the accuser and the King of Pop. During an interview with Deadline on Sunday, Fuqua revealed that he received the news after he'd finished his director's cut. "It was an extra punch in the gut for me at that moment, because I was in the exact same situation with (the 2022 film) Emancipation..."
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