The first film hadn’t even left theaters before Lionsgate started talking about the second one.
Michael, the biopic starring Jaafar Jackson as his late uncle, opened in April 2026 to $217.4 million worldwide — the biggest opening weekend in music biopic history.
It has since crossed $900 million globally, making it the second-highest-grossing music biopic ever made.
Fans showed up in numbers nobody predicted, and they kept coming back.
The Official Trailer Of Biopic Michael
Now Lionsgate has confirmed on a quarterly earnings call that a sequel is officially in development. Motion picture chair Adam Fogelson told investors the conversations with all the right parties are going “exceptionally well.”
He also revealed something that caught a lot of people off guard — ROUGHLY 25 TO 30 PERCENT OF THE SEQUEL MAY ALREADY BE SHOT, from footage captured during production on the first film.
“There is a ton of incredibly entertaining Michael Jackson story,” Fogelson said, “and much of the biggest and most popular parts of his music catalog that were not touched upon in the first film.”
Michael Part 2 Trailer – Fan Concept
THE ORIGINAL MICHAEL ENDS IN 1987 DURING THE BAD TOUR, LEAVING DECADES OF STORY STILL UNTOLD — the Dangerous era, HIStory, the trials, and everything that followed.
Fogelson added that they are confident the sequel will once again appeal to a global audience by including previously untold parts of Michael’s life and a soundtrack set in the 1990s.
REPORTS ALSO CLAIM THAT MICHAEL PART 2 IS SET TO BE RELEASED IN THE YEAR 2028.
Given where the first film landed at the box office, it’s hard to argue with that.
Michael Jackson’s story didn’t end in 1987. Turns out, neither does the movie.