Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed says he has been focused with 1000’s of demise threats from Michael Jackson followers, on account of making a documentary about two males who say the famous person abused them after they have been kids.
Reed instructed The Guardian newspaper: “I’ve had murderers attempt to discover me. I’ve had individuals threaten to shoot me who’re armed. I’ve been threatened many, many instances.”
Reed spoke to Deadline earlier this week concerning the course of of creating Leaving Neverland 2, the sequel to his incendiary first movie, which was launched by HBO in 2019. The award-winning documentary featured Wade Robeson and James Safechuck, who alleged they’d been sexually assaulted as juveniles by Michael Jackson, through the peak of his profession.
Each the filmmaker and its topics have been focused on the time of the primary movie by ardent followers of Jackson, claiming they have been all out to become profitable from an harmless man not right here to defend himself.
This weekend in The Guardian, Reed went additional about threats focusing on him personally:
“I’ve stored firm with very violent individuals for a really very long time. I don’t need to say I’m a troublesome man, however the needle doesn’t go into the purple till I’ve received one thing fairly particular. The threats delivered nose to nose I took severely. Individuals looking for my house deal with to publish me a parcel I took severely. Individuals in China sending me emails? I don’t take so severely. They’re going to need to get on a aircraft.”
Leaving Neverland 2 picks up the story the place the primary movie left off in 2019, chronicling Robson and Safechuck’s authorized battle with the Jackson property as they search to carry the singer’s enablers accountable for the abuse they declare to have suffered.
HBO is just not a accomplice for the brand new documentary, which can premiere in North America on Actual Tales, the Little Dot Studios premium documentary channel on YouTube, and Reed is “genuinely excited” about it reaching as broad an viewers as potential. The documentary will first premiere on Channel 4 within the UK on March 18.
