The late pop star’s estate overlooked a key contract with a child accuser that has now rendered the already shot third act of the film unusable. With the clock ticking on a delayed October release date, producers are scrambling to rewrite, reshoot, and somehow salvage MJ’s big-budget musical biopic.

TLDR; MJ’s estate agreed to never depict the family of one of his accusers in a legal settlement. The movie was going to depict them as money grubbing. Womp womp.