They certainly don’t wait long to capitalize on things do they?
As most of you know, when Michael Jackson died he was hard at work preparing for his upcoming series of concerts he was calling “This Is It”. As a matter of fact, Jackson was already well into massive rehearsals for the shows… rehearsals that were video taped… over 80 hours of video tape… and now Sony pictures is in negotiations to purchase that footage to cut into a documentary by the same name.
Reports are out that even though Sony hasn’t yet secured the rights, they are already hard at work putting the documentary together and have brought on director Kenny Ortega (director of the “High School Musical” franchise) to start to project.
Sony apparently has a goal of finishing and releasing the film by the end of the year.
So I’m not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand I must admit I’d be very interested to see this. I’m dying to know what that last show would have looked like. But on the other hand this sorta feels like they’re just trying to take advantage of the death of Jackson. Why else rush to get it out so quickly? But even if that’s true… can you blame them? Like I said… I don’t know how to feel about this yet. What do you think?
