20-06-2016 22:31 via theverge.com

J.J. Abrams and Tavis Smiley are making a show about Michael Jackson's 'last days'

J.J. Abrams is helping Tavis Smiley turn his new book about Michael Jackson's last days and death into a limited TV series. Abrams and Smiley are coming together under the Warner Bros. Television banner to produce Before You Judge Me: The Triumph and Tragedy of Michael Jackson's Last Days, a "taut novelistic rendering" of Jackson's fight for privacy and complicated life before his death in 2009. (Smiley co-wrote the book with David Ritz; it's being released tomorrow, June 21st.) This isn't the f
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