The official trailer for the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic, Michael, dropped on Monday morning (Feb. 2) and it promises a wide-ranging look at the late self-proclaimed King of Pop’s well-known story of rising from humble beginnings to the peak of pop culture stardom in the 1980s.
“You’re confident. You’re strong. You’re beautiful. You’re the greatest of all time,” we hear star Jaafar Jackson — MJ’s real-life nephew — say in a kind of Stuart Smalley-esque pump-up speech to himself at the top of the two-minute preview. Director Antoine Fuqua (Stans, Bullet Train) then zooms out from the period just before Jackson’s solo career went meteoric to footage of MJ at his moon-walking, stadium sell-out peak, with the singer’s kin effortlessly pulling off the tricky dance moves and Jackson’s signature vocal yelps.
Fuqua then rewinds all the way back to the beginning, with imperious family patriarch Joe Jackson (Colman Domingo), explaining how things are, and are going to be, to his musically talented family around their Gary, Indiana dining room table. “Let me tell you somethin’,” Joe Jackson says as MJ’s 1979 “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” solo hit bubbles up and we see the singer and his brothers in the Jackson Five refining their soon-to-be-chart-topping act. “In this life, you’re either a winner or a loser. Y’all want to work in a steel mill like me for the rest of your days?”
The kids offer a firm “yes, sir” to their dad’s question about whether they’re willing to “fight for it,” with the trailer quick-cutting to producer Quincy Jones (Kendrick Sampson) asking a 20-year-old Michael if he’s ready to lay down some tracks. “You know what I’m after,” a smiling Jackson asks his powerhouse lawyer/manager, John Branca (Miles Teller), who responds, “You wanna be the biggest star in the world?”
As Jackson’s solo career explodes and he wins a then-record eight Grammy Awards in one night in 1984, Joe Jackson attempts to wield control again, saying the family needs to “capitalize” on the youngest son’s massive success by cashing in on it with an international tour by the family band.
The trailer hints at the power dynamics in play between father and son, with Joe telling Michael “I told you what to think” when the singer suggests he needs time to prioritize the Jacksons’ 1985 Victory world tour over this about-to-be historic solo career. The preview ends with Jackson struggling to get all the music ideas he has out of his head and onto tape and the beginnings of Thriller, the monumental album that would make him the biggest pop star on the planet.
The $155 million film, two years in the making and originally slated for an Oct. 2025 release, is due out on April 24. The cast also includes Nia Long as mother Katherine Jackson, Larenz Tate as Motown founder Berry Gordy, Laura Harrier as Jackson 5 dresser Suzanne de Passe, Kat Graham as Diana Ross, Jessica Sula as sister La Toya Jackson, Liv Symone as Gladys Knight and Kevin Shinick as Dick Clark.
Watch the Michael trailer below.
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