15 h, nov 29, 2019 y - MEDIA COVERAGE 28 - 31 Nov 2019 Johnny Depp [NOT] producing a musical about Michael Jackson's Glove

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This is a cautionary tale of an untruth going viral as the original story was taken, expanded and elaborated upon yet no one sort to check or obtain comment from Team Depp. In other words no one did any due diligence.

An article was printed in Page Six on 28 November 2019: Johnny Depp producing musical about Michael Jackson. From there it was picked up and went viral appearing in media articles across the globe. By 30 December 2019 Team Depp issued a denial which was printed in the Rolling Stone and then a full article was printed by the NME on 5 December 2019.

FROM ROLLING STONE:
UPDATE: Contrary to initial reports, Rolling Stone has confirmed that neither Johnny Depp nor his production company are involved in the production.

FROM PAGE SIX:

Johnny Depp producing musical about Michael Jackson

By Ian Mohr

In an unusual “sequins” of events, Johnny Depp is producing an unauthorized musical about Michael Jackson told from the perspective of the King of Pop’s iconic glove.

The wild show — “For the Love of a Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson, as told by his Glove” by Julien Nitzberg — debuts Jan. 25 in LA. It’s described as a “look into the strange forces that shaped Michael and the scandals that bedeviled his reputation” as narrated by a talking, singing glove.

Actors star with life-size puppets of the Jackson 5, Donny Osmond, Emmanuel Lewis, Corey Feldman and Bubbles the Chimp. Nitzberg first came up with the concept 17 years ago.

“I’m known for writing a lot of biopics,” he said. “A major TV network wanted me to write a [Jackson] movie … but the question came up [about] how to deal with the child-abuse allegations.” When the network and Nitzberg disagreed, “I said, how’s this? Everything MJ has been accused of has actually been caused by his glove, which is actually an alien from outer space [and] feeds on virgin boy blood. They laughed and said, can you do the normal version?” But, “It was morally kind of repugnant to me to do … I turned down a really big paycheck.” He thought, “I’m going to go back to this … and do this as a musical.” But, “we just couldn’t get the financing.”

Depp’s company Infinitum Nihil, headed by CEO Sam Sarkar, got involved after Nitzberg worked on developing a biopic on 1960s one-hit wonder Tiny Tim to star John Turturro.

“It ended up never getting made, but I developed a very good relationship with them,” Nitzberg recalled. When he pitched other ideas, an exec asked, “What else are you working on?” The writer said of his Jacko satire, “I’m doing this theater piece you probably aren’t interested in.” It’s just the latest Jacko project in the wake of HBO’s “Leaving Neverland” documentary. A sanctioned musical, “MJ,” heads to Broadway next year.

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