Dr. WTF! Michael Jackson Was Top Choice For Lead Role In DOCTOR WHO Movie

Dr. WTF! Michael Jackson Was Top Choice For Lead Role In DOCTOR WHO Movie

According to Charles Norton's new book, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, was considered the top choice for the lead in Paramount Pictures defunct 1980's Doctor Who movie. Hit the jump to find out who their second choice was.

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By nailbiter111 - Jul 05, 2013 10:07 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: nme



Shamone! The Times is reporting that one of the passages in Charles Norton's new book, Now On The Big Screen: The Unofficial And Unauthorised Guide To Doctor Who At The Cinema reveals that Michael Jackson ("Men in Black II") was considered for the starring role in Paramount's never-made Doctor Who film.

In one chapter, its author Charles Norton claims that Jackson was the preferred choice for a lead role in a big screen version of the BBC TV show by Paramount bosses in 1988, off the back of his film Moonwalker. Apparently, Bill Cosby ("Ghost Dad") was also in mind for the role had Jackson declined the offer.



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SpideyQuad
SpideyQuad - 7/5/2013, 10:29 AM
LOL, more like Dr. Disfigured or Nurse Zombie
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 7/5/2013, 10:30 AM
Wow. That would've been awesome! Michael turning into a robot and killing all the daleks, moonwalker style?

I would've paid to see that.
BlackPhillip
BlackPhillip - 7/5/2013, 10:32 AM
Dr. Pedo
ManDeth
ManDeth - 7/5/2013, 10:37 AM
Last year we had to see that pig James Holmes face on here for a week. Now we have to see MJs face.

Why cant this be a site free of such faces? A safe haven from them????

Just say NO! to their faces!
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 7/5/2013, 10:37 AM
this is about several pages oh boy wait to gusto an the gang GIF this one up lol

2 cents would anyone have gone to neverland ranch ?...........
LordoftheThrones26
LordoftheThrones26 - 7/5/2013, 10:41 AM
YES YES YES!!!!
JoshBerger
JoshBerger - 7/5/2013, 10:46 AM
pfft...
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 7/5/2013, 10:47 AM
@CubanRaftRider

Except that he was proven innocent?
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 7/5/2013, 10:55 AM
Lol at all the Michael Jackson haters.

Its funny all the hater he gets when he's the greatest artist ever and that includes the Beatles.

MJ was proved innocent. Quit whining with your conspiracy theories.
Dayv
Dayv - 7/5/2013, 10:58 AM
Thank God this didn't happen. It would have killed the chance of the 2005 reboot!
NBAfanaddict
NBAfanaddict - 7/5/2013, 11:00 AM
Wait....now....what...who....why..... Ok...I guess maybe...., no....WHAT??

MJ is my favorite artist ever, but.....no...
exe
exe - 7/5/2013, 11:01 AM
More like Dr. Nope.
LucasMend
LucasMend - 7/5/2013, 11:03 AM
WTF Hollywood.
btw that's a FAN MADE trailer! ;)
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 7/5/2013, 11:05 AM
It is when there's no substantial evidence proving otherwise. The molestation charges were only brought into court after Michael refused to pay Chandler. He then forced his son to tell those fabrications in court (which the child himself admitted). There's a reason why he committed suicide the day after Michael died, and that his own son emancipated himself from him after the trial.

It was a b.s. scam for money proven on every occasion.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 7/5/2013, 11:08 AM
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 7/5/2013, 11:10 AM
There is prove the Holocaust happen dumbass.

There isn't any for Michael.
PersonOfNoInterest
PersonOfNoInterest - 7/5/2013, 11:14 AM
No.



I said no. Just no. I can almost believe that there is a god because someone stopped that madness from happening. It makes me thankful the horrid american version turned out as good as it did... because no... just no.

I love Bill Cosby and think he's awesome. I respect Michael Jackson's contributions to music, art and comedy... but neither of them had what it took.
eleven59
eleven59 - 7/5/2013, 11:15 AM
@nibs exactly what I thought too.. Lmao...oh THAT MJ... (and not the NFL player I guess)
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 7/5/2013, 11:17 AM
You see this must be why Cuba is on lockdown and doesn't let their people have freedom of speech unless the leave the country which is hard as hell.

First dude says the Crow sucks.

Now he's comparing Michael Jackson to the Holocaust.

You seriously are too stupid to insult.
HankPymp
HankPymp - 7/5/2013, 11:18 AM
SupermarioworldE, you said exactly what I was about to write.
In addition to the father killing himself the day after, it was also proven in court that Michael wasn't even at Neverland Ranch the dates that he was accused.
The evidence proving his innocence is all there, in plain sight, if people wanna be ignorant and hop on the let's make fun of Mj bandwagon, they can whip those dead horses all they want. Now, am I saying he was good for the role? probably not. I'm not blind, The Good Doctor wasn't that good of a dancer. So there is that. But, no matter what gets said about the artist, his eccentricities, or the events that led to his unfortunate demise, you can't deny or ignore what he did for the entertainment industry. Show me your greatest selling record of all time, along with the top ten 7 SINGLES out of 9 NINE SONGS, with the 7 Grammys to go along with it, subsequent awards and achievements to come later, then judge all day. Don't be jealous 'cause you didn't think of the Thriller video first.
PrincessLeather
PrincessLeather - 7/5/2013, 11:19 AM
OH Sh@T!!

Bring on th GIF's!!!
knocturnalzen10
knocturnalzen10 - 7/5/2013, 11:25 AM
@cubanraftrider

i understand it's ur opinions on things in which the crow being a bad movie is insane but it's still ur opinion.
unfortunately 90% are noob statements an are based off emotions more than facts............

@levi

he's cuban B!
HankPymp
HankPymp - 7/5/2013, 11:33 AM
CubanRaft:
Yes, even as a huge fan of his, I'll say that it wasn't the smartest idea to have kids sleep in your bed. It brought all sorts of unwanted trouble. But not having the proper tools himself, and literally having no childhood AT ALL, no birthdays, no holidays, no playing with your friends, and a tyrant for a dad who makes you work at age 7, does that to someone. He had no filter, no experiences to tie with being an adult. It literally kept him a kid. Does it excuse it? Well, one should know better, but we weren't Michael Jackson. 1. to get a good gauge of just how invested he was in his need to help people all the time, go online then look at awards he's gotten (much deserved) from the amount he's donated to charities alone. It's more then you and I could make in ten years.. (Combined and without taxes.) 2. Go online again, and look up how people reacted, and what happened whenever that man came into their town. Especially Europe. imagine yourself in that bubble, and then imagine how NORMAL you'd come out.
HankPymp
HankPymp - 7/5/2013, 11:34 AM
anyways..Comics?? how about those guys?
Nivekian
Nivekian - 7/5/2013, 11:34 AM
Funny how people forget little facts like Michael Jackson sleeping nude with his sleepover guests and feeding them wine. The guy was a known, rich pedo creep who liked messing up kids fed to him by greedy parents. Sad so many people choose to ignore the facts that made him flee from this country at one point to avoid prosecution till he payed off more people.
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 7/5/2013, 11:34 AM
So you're telling me that this guy would let his son become molested, take the case out of court for money because of "blackmail", and that the same child would defend the man who molested him over his own dad? Really? C'mon.

And once again, there was no evidence proving his guilt on every single occasion.
supermarioworldE
supermarioworldE - 7/5/2013, 11:36 AM
HankPymp

Thank you for looking into the actual facts and not the b.s. the media hyped up to sell newspapers.
dnno1
dnno1 - 7/5/2013, 11:39 AM


Well, he was Captain E.O., so maybe they thought he would be just as popular as Doctor Who.
ManDeth
ManDeth - 7/5/2013, 11:44 AM
@LEVITIKUZ We see innocent guys faces in the news as theyre falsely accused of rape and child molestation probably more than we see guilty guys.

But...why the fvck would an accused child molester who had to drop his pants in front of the cops and very nearly went to prison until he paid the lying kids Dad millions, go back to sleeping with kids and playing around with other peoples kids???

If Michael Jackson wasnt a molester, and youre right, he may not have been, he was still one dumb S.O.B.!

His face and even the facts surrounding his death prove that.

But the dudes face is sickening! So innocent or not we should be spared its sight!
Nivekian
Nivekian - 7/5/2013, 11:46 AM
Pretty stupid that people would ignore allegations for 20 years just because the guy is a celeb. But hey, look at that crazy BBC guy who did pretty much the same thing Michael Jackson did for years, and he still has defenders. same with the Catholic Church. But people really have this mentality with molestation to either shame the accusers when the pedo is someone they like because of some twisted hero worship reason. I wonder how much child sexual trauma & violated innocence Thriller was worth?
dnno1
dnno1 - 7/5/2013, 11:50 AM
Didn't Robert Downey Jr. spend 3 years in prison for drug abuse?
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