(Relaxnews) – The musical to be produced by Johnny Depp’s production house is expected to tell the life and misfortunes of the King of Pop from the point of view … of his glitter glove!
The sequined accessory is perhaps the King of Pop’s best known, with its matching socks and hat. It was popularized when he delivered his first “moonwalk” performance on the NBC special “Motown 25” on May 16, 1983. This glove was auctioned off in November 2009 by Julien’s, he had reached $ 420,000.
This unofficial musical, titled “For the Love of a Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson, As Told By His Glove” (For the love of a glove: an unauthorized musical fable about the life of Michael Jackson told by his glove) will be staged by the American Julien Nitzberg.
This director and filmmaker rose to prominence with his documentary, “The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia” in 2009, which followed a family of famous bandits.
Although few details concerning this umpteenth project on the life of Michael Jackson, and surely the most offbeat, have been revealed, this satire presents itself as “a new and revisionist vision of the strange forces that shaped Jackson and the scandals that shaped him. tormented. “
In a recent interview with Page Six, Julien Nitzberg revealed that a major American TV channel had initially commissioned a film about Michael Jackson from him several years ago. This project was abandoned because they could not come to an agreement on how to approach the accusations of pedophilia that have marred the singer’s career.
The director remembers explaining his delirium to the channel in these terms: “Everything MJ is accused of was in fact caused by his glove, which is none other than an alien who feeds on the blood of young boys. “. It remains to be seen how this crazy story will be transcribed on stage, with in the main role “a glove which sings and which dances”.
Julien Nitzberg rethought his project for the stage, with the help of Johnny Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil, with whom he had previously collaborated on a biopic of the more confidential American singer, Tiny Tim.
The first performance of the musical “For the Love of a Glove” is scheduled for January 25 at the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan theater in Los Angeles.
This project is only one of a multitude of others interested in the life of the ex-leader of the Jackson family. A few days ago, “Bohemian Rhapsody” producer Graham King reportedly acquired the rights to direct a film, licensed this time, on the King of Pop.
This biopic, whose writing will be entrusted to the American screenwriter John Logan, should tell the life of the child prodigy, from his beginnings in Indiana with the Jackson 5 until his death in June 2009.
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