{"id":2141321,"date":"2025-11-07T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2141321"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:07:25","slug":"jaafar-jackson-transforms-into-michael-jackson-in-biopic-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jaafar-jackson-transforms-into-michael-jackson-in-biopic-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaafar Jackson Transforms Into\u00a0Michael Jackson in Biopic Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p>This is it.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Lionsgate released the first teaser for Michael<strong> <\/strong>starring <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>\u2019s nephew <strong>Jaafar Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0Nov. 6, who is the spitting image of his late uncle.<\/p>\n<p>Jaafar does a complete transformation in\u00a0clips of Michael including ones of him taking the stage for fans, accepting his Grammys and doing his signature Moon Walk while <strong>Quincy Jones<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>Kendrick Sampson<\/strong>) gives him a peptalk from the studio.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Michael walks up to the microphone in the recording booth and asks, \u201cQ, can you lower the lights for me, please?\u201d before flashing his signature grin and laugh.<\/p>\n<p>The teaser\u2014set to a mashup of Michael\u2019s hits \u201cWanna be Startin\u2019 Something,\u201d &#8220;Beat It\u201d and &#8220;Human Nature\u201d\u2014ends with clips from various eras of the singer\u2019s life from childhood, to filming the \u201cThriller\u201d music video and one final iconic dance scene.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer earned praise from Michael\u2019s son <strong>Prince Jackson<\/strong>, who celebrated his cousin\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcited for the world to see this,\u201d Prince wrote alongside a clip of\u00a0the trailer on Instagram Nov. 6. \u201cSo proud of everyone involved in this but none more than my cousin @jaafarjackson. The world\u2019s not ready for you cuz.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.eonline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is it. Indeed, Lionsgate released the first teaser for Michael starring Michael Jackson\u2019s nephew Jaafar Jackson\u00a0Nov. 6, who is the spitting image of his late uncle. Jaafar does a complete transformation in\u00a0clips of Michael including ones of him taking the stage for fans, accepting his Grammys and doing his signature Moon Walk while Quincy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2141322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2141321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Jaafar-Jackson-Transforms-Into-Michael-Jackson-in-Biopic-Trailer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2141321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2141323,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141321\/revisions\/2141323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2141322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}