Michael Jackson biopic: update: Nephew (Jermaine’s son) to play MJ

Will they show how Bob Fosse inspired MJ as a kid

from 1974 “The Little Prince”

 

Bob Fosse "inspired" a lot of people, but then I think he readily admitted he was inspired by those before him, too.

Beyonce was also "inspired" by Fosse/Gwen Verdon :

 

I don't think she choreographed the dance

 

It was choreographed by some guy, but the inspiration is pretty clear and direct as she herself said so :

From here :

Beyoncé’s inspiration was a 1960s film of a Bob Fosse routine, Mexican Breakfast, which featured his wife, Gwen Verdon. “I saw a video on YouTube,” she recalls. “They had a plain background and it was shot on the crane; it was 360 degrees, they could move around. And I said, ‘This is genius.’ We kept a lot of the Fosse choreography and added the down-south thing — it’s called J-setting, where one person does something and the next person follows. So it was a strange mixture, kind of like the song, which is almost like a nursery rhyme, the ‘oh-oh-oh’s, and the sinister chords. So it’s like the most urban choreography, mixed with Fosse — very modern and very vintage. We’d spent all the budget on the video for (the previous single) If I Were a Boy, and with this song, we didn’t even have a treatment. So, it’s the least expensive video I’ve done. Not for a moment did I think, ‘This is going to be a movement.’”

Everybody gets something from generations before them. Breakdancing goes back to the 50s, if not earlier, as another example. Even Michael Jackson's moonwalk in some form goes back decades before him. Most of this stuff is borrowed and evolved.

 

I just don’t know the answer to this question, but what was the cause of his skin becoming lighter?