Leaving Neverland director Dan Reed says he has been focused with hundreds of loss of life threats from Michael Jackson followers, because of making a documentary about two males who say the celebrity abused them once they have been kids.
Reed advised 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 they’d been sexually assaulted as juveniles by Michael Jackson, in the course of 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 earn a living from an harmless man now 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 need to say I’m a tricky man, however the needle doesn’t go into the pink till I’ve bought one thing fairly particular. The threats delivered nose to nose I took critically. Individuals looking for my residence tackle to put up me a parcel I took critically. Individuals in China sending me emails? I don’t take so critically. They’re going to must 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 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 doable. The documentary will first premiere on Channel 4 within the UK on March 18.
