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Michael Jackson Pulled Out Of Spielberg's Hook Over Peter Pan Portrayal

Michael Jackson pulled out of playing Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg's 1991 movie Hook because the director's vision for the film didn't match his own.
Spielberg admits Jackson was keen to take on the lead role in the film but baulked at the idea of playing a lawyer who forgot he was the boy who never grew up.
The director tells Entertainment Weekly magazine, "Michael had always wanted to play Peter Pan, but I called Michael and I said, 'This is about a lawyer that is brought back to save his kids and discovers that he was once, when he was younger, Peter Pan.'
"Michael understood at that point it wasn't the same Peter Pan he wanted to make."
The role eventually went to funnyman Robin Williams.
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Det havde jeg ingen anelse om, Fuck det havde været genialt! Jeg elsker den film og den havde været ekstra genial med Michael i hovedrollen!

[Hess]

Jeg har nu altid hørt at MJ blev fravalgt - og ikke selv fravalgte det...


Men ja, han havde været god.

[fuzzball]

Hess, på 05 December 2011 - 07:49 PM, sagde:

Jeg har nu altid hørt at MJ blev fravalgt - og ikke selv fravalgte det..

Ja det er også det jeg har læst.
Michael troede, at han skulle være med som partner i DreamWorks dengang Spielberg stiftede det, men det blev ikke til noget. Nogen mener at Spielberg direkte stjal/kopierede det logo Michael havde lavet til Neverland, som minder vildt meget om DreamWorks logo. (Michael VAR den første til at bruge sit Neverland Logo.)

[Hess]

Dreamworks logo er direkte tyvstjålet fra MJ's Neverland logo.

MJ skulle finde et godt manuskript og så ville han få hovedrollen.

MJ fandt manuskriptet - men Spielberg ville ikke give MJ rollen (som lovet) alligevel!

[Hess]

Fra MJJC

Second i read in Row's book and this is the quote:

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He went into depth about how he felt that Steven Spielberg and David Geffen had mistreated him. I could tell he was very hurt about that. He told me he was supposed to be a partner in The DreamWorks Company, and that he wanted so badly to make a movie. Steven Spielberg told him to find a good script, and he would be cast in the starring role. Michael said that is what he did. He said when he found a great script he sent it over to Steven Spielberg, and a couple of days later, he received a call from him, "Michael, I have some good news, and I have some bad news. The good news is... the script you sent over was great. The bad news is that you will not be starring in the movie." Michael said that was one of the most painful days of his life. Michael knew and felt that he was being "blackballed" by the entertainment industry. He told me he did not allow his children, Prince Michael and Paris (at this particular time Blanket was a baby), to watch television because everything that was being said about him was always negative. He said they always referred to him as "Wacko Jacko", and they are always calling him a child molester. He also said no matter what good he did in the world, it was never talked about publicly. He knew that he was disliked by the powers of the entertainment industry [...]

[themjj]

Øv hvor er det trist.

[Gregers]

Ja det var syndt, han vil elske den rolle!