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JACKSON PLANNED THRILLER MOVIE
MICHAEL JACKSON was planning to make a feature-length big screen version of his hit THRILLER video when he died.
Close friend and Jackson's comeback tour director Kenny Ortega reveals he had discussed several movie projects with the star - including a Thriller movie, and a film version of Peter Allen musical Legs Diamond.
Ortega tells PerezHilton.com, "He told me he wanted to create a partnership with me to do films. We were talking about doing Legs Diamond. And we were talking about doing a full-length, 3-D feature of Thriller."
Sony Pictures boss Amy Pascal has also revealed Jackson approached her to discuss movie ideas, including a musical fantasy called Midknight and a remake of British musical The Red Shoes, based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about a "ballet dancer whose compulsion to dance ultimately destroys any hope she once had of a normal life, leading to her tragic death".
Jackson died from a cardiac arrest in June (09) at the age of 50.
31 October 2009 01:26
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jacqueline 
( 77)
posted on 01/11/2009 04:00
It would have been a great movie had Michael Jackson not passed away the way he
did.
How sad for all of us his fans.
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8dz fan 
(5)
posted on 31/10/2009 05:26
When you watch "This is It", Michael talks about having Thriller in 3-d for his
concert. So I can totally see him wanting to make a movie like that. This
article has a lot of validity to it. The movie would've been amazing just
considering what he wanted to do on-stage with it, bummer.
