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With his documentary, “Leaving Neverland” director Dan Reed wants to go into a next round and provide other insights to the allegations of Wade Robson and James Safechuck. These claim that Michael Jackson has sexually misused. After describing their accusations in detail about the alleged processes on the California Neverland Ranch in the 2019 documentation part, the focus is on the now planned continuation of the legal dispute.
A tough process
According to “Variety”, a court trial was sought by Robson and Safechuck because they denounced that they had failed to protect them from sexual assault. A “Leaving Neverland 2: Surviving Michael Jackson” is expected to appear in UK and the USA on March 18. The 50-minute work looks at how the two plaintiffs fight for a hearing and enabling a process in relation to their experiences with the King of Pop.
Dan Reed about “Variety”: “It took a terribly long time just to get a negotiation date that looks as if it could actually take place.” Regarding the estate that manages everything around the Jackson, who died in 2009, Reed said that in his opinion, they would “find a way to try to avoid this whole thing and to ensure that it never comes to court … but who knows. Perhaps justice will win and there will be a process. And if there is a process, I want to be there ”.
Listeners can already be seen in the second part, but whether it will be approved in a larger process to have cameras on site is still unclear. But Reed sees the matter according to “Variety” as follows: “It is a bridge film between a fairly sensational beginning and hopefully very dramatic end.” What he could mean by this, he did not say.
However, he wanted to hold on to another part, so that the viewers in relation to the plaintiffs “recognize that they are real people with a real story and real families who do this … They are not just a few people who have appeared because they have seen a pot of gold. These are people who have devoted to justice at least a decade of their lives. ”
Michael Jackson’s estate is against it
The first “Leaving Neverland” part won the Emmys in the “Best Documentary” category. But Jackson’s estate vehemently fended off the allegations taken up in the documentary. It is also underlined that there was already a process during the star’s lifetime and Michael Jackson was acquitted in the 2005 criminal trial.