Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed says he has been focused with hundreds of demise threats from Michael Jackson followers, on account of making a documentary about two males who say the famous person abused them once they had been youngsters.
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 in regards to 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 that they had been sexually assaulted as juveniles by Michael Jackson, throughout the peak of his profession.
Each the filmmaker and its topics had been focused on the time of the primary movie by ardent followers of Jackson, claiming they had been all out to earn a living from an harmless man not right here to defend himself.
This weekend in The Guardian, Reed went additional about threats concentrating on him personally:
“I’ve stored firm with very violent individuals for a really very long time. I don’t wish to say I’m a troublesome man, however the needle doesn’t go into the pink till I’ve received one thing fairly particular. The threats delivered nose to nose I took severely. Folks looking for my dwelling deal with to publish me a parcel I took severely. Folks 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 will not be a companion for the brand new documentary, which is able to 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.
