{"id":141368,"date":"2025-03-12T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/12\/leaving-neverland-director-promises-dramatic-ending-to-michael-jackson-doc-series-with-third-chapter\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T12:14:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T16:14:16","slug":"leaving-neverland-director-promises-dramatic-ending-to-michael-jackson-doc-series-with-third-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/03\/12\/leaving-neverland-director-promises-dramatic-ending-to-michael-jackson-doc-series-with-third-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Leaving Neverland\u2019 Director Promises \u2018Dramatic Ending\u2019 To Michael Jackson Doc Series With Third\u00a0Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tDirector Dan Reed is planning a third chapter in his ongoing Leaving Neverland<\/a><\/em> series about allegations of sexual abuse against late pop icon Michael Jackson<\/a> by dancer\/choreographer Wade Robson and James Safechuck. <\/p>\n

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\n\tAccording to Variety<\/a><\/em>, the second sequel will focus on the upcoming trial pitting Robson and Safechuck against Jackson\u2019s companies over their allegations that the organizations neglected to protect them from the alleged abuse detailed in the bombshell 2019 two-part doc. In the original film, the men described in graphic detail how the late King of Pop allegedly molested them at his Neverland Ranch in California when they were both minors; Jackson\u2019s estate has continuously and emphatically denied the allegations.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe reported third film will serve as the follow-up to the upcoming Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson<\/em>, which will premiere on Channel 4 in the U.K. on March 18 and on YouTube in the United States. The 50-minute movie will primarily focus on Robson and Safechuck fighting to have their lawsuit against Jackson\u2019s estate go forward; the case is slated to go to trial next year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s taken an awful long time just to get to a trial date that looks as though it could actually happen,\u201d Reed told Variety<\/em> about his plan to have cameras in the courtroom, despite his belief that the Jackson estate will \u201cfind a way to try and sideswipe this whole thing and make sure it never goes to court\u2026 But who knows. Maybe justice will prevail and there\u2019ll be a trial. And if there is a trial, I want to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile we will have to wait to see what will happen when the men have their day in court, Reed is aware that it\u2019s possible that the judge in the case might not let cameras in their courtroom. \u201cIt\u2019s really the judge\u2019s discretion,\u201d he said. Reed was allowed to film inside the Santa Monica Courthouse for several hearings depicted in Leaving Neverland 2<\/em>, which mainly focuses on the legal back-and-forth leading up to Robson and Safechuck being granted a trial. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a bridge film in between what was a pretty high-profile start and what I hope will be a very dramatic ending,\u201d Reed said. \u201cWe could have kept it to include all this material and the trial. But I think the trial will be so dramatic, and you won\u2019t have time for all the stuff in between.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original Leaving Neverland<\/em> won an Emmy for outstanding documentary or nonfiction special, even as it drew fire from Jackson\u2019s family and estate and, in 2019, resulted in a $100 million lawsuit by the estate against HBO over claims that the documentary violated a 27-year-old non-disparagement clause the network signed to air a 1992 concert film for Jackson\u2019s Dangerous World Tour; the case was sent to private arbitration that year and is still pending. <\/p>\n

\n\tJackson\u2019s estate has consistently denied a series of allegations of sexual abuse against the singer who died in 2009, often noting that Jackson was acquitted in a 2005 criminal trial and has never been convicted or held liable for any such claims. The estate has also claimed that accusers are looking for a payday from an artist who cannot defend himself because defamation laws do not cover dead people.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for why he\u2019s planning the third chapter, Reed said that he hopes to keep telling Robson and Safechuck\u2019s story because he thinks it will help viewers \u201crealize that these are real people, with a real story, with real families who are doing this\u2026 They\u2019re not just a couple of people who popped up because they saw a pot of gold. These are people who have really dedicated a decade, at least, of their lives to getting justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Director Dan Reed is planning a third chapter in his ongoing Leaving Neverland series about allegations of sexual abuse against late pop icon Michael Jackson by dancer\/choreographer Wade Robson and James Safechuck. Related Michael Jackson Accusers Have More to Say in \u2018Leaving Neverland\u2019 Sequel\u00a0Documentary 02\/20\/2025 According to Variety, the second sequel will focus on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}