According to The Hollywood Reporter, one of the more notiorious films on Hollywood’s Black List is finally going to be produced. Screenwriter Isaac Adamson’s Bubbles, a biopic of Michael Jackson told from the perspective his pet chimpanzee (b. 1983) and intended to be filmed using stop-motion animation, has been acquired for production.
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The Black List is an annually collected list of the best – or most interesting – screenplays in Hollywood that have gone unproduced, according to a panel of Hollywood executives and producers. Bubbles was described by The Black List as the following: “A baby chimp is adopted by pop star Michael Jackson. Narrating his own story, Bubbles the Chimp details his life within The King of Pop’s inner circle through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to Bubbles’ release.”
No director is yet attached, but Bubbles will be executive produced by Adamson and Lee Stobby with Dan Harmon and Andrew Kortschak as producers.
The film may seem like a bonkers idea, but many of the screenplays on The Black List have gone into production, and eventually earned many awards. 2015’s Spotlight and The Revenant were once on The Black List. Other films that were on 2015’s list with Bubbles were a biopic of Ronald Reagan’s later years, a film about the murder of an astronaut, a love story set amongst a lottery scandal investigation, a history of the Getty kidnapping, and a movie about a bunch of horny women who accidentally murder a male stripper.
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