Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland — Trailer

added: Fri, May 19th '17

At the end of this month, the Lifetime network will release a new television movie about the final days of Michael Jackson's life, taking a sympathetic look at the private moments with his children as told from the point of view of the King of Pop's personal bodyguards Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard.

Directed by TV helmer Dianne Houston (Runaway Island) and written by screenwriter Elizabeth Hunter (Jumping the Broom, The Fighting Temptations), "Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland" features famed Michael Jackson impersonator "Navi" as the 50-year-old pop icon, while The Walking Dead's Chad L. Coleman and Sam Adegoke (TV's Switched at Birth) are portraying Jackson's trusted security officers Whitfield and Beard, whose 2014 best-selling book is the source material for the upcoming TV movie.

Check out the newly released trailer for the two-hour Lifetime drama, which is scheduled to premiere on Memorial Day on Monday, May 29th.

synopsis:
Based on the best-selling book, "Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days," by Bill Whitfield and Javon Beard with Tanner Colby, "Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland" is told through the eyes of the King of Pop's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield (Chad Coleman) and Javon Beard (Sam Adegoke). The movie will reveal firsthand the devotion Michael (Navi, the world’s no. 1 Michael Jackson tribute artist) had to his children, and the hidden drama that took place during the last two years of his life.

directed by Dianne Houston

starring Navi, Chad L. Coleman, Sam Adegoke

release date May 29, 2017 (on Lifetime)