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'Urban Myths' Trailer Offers First Look at Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson

1/10/2017

Sky Arts has debuted the first trailer for Urban Myths, the upcoming comedy starring Joseph Fiennes as the late Michael Jackson.

The British TV film also stars Stockard Channing as Elizabeth Taylor and Brian Cox as Marlon Brando and tells the story of a fabled road trip the three real-life stars took following the 9/11 terror attacks.

Amid backlash last year to news of the casting of a white man to play the King of Pop, Fiennes told The Hollywood Reporter last February that though the film is "not a biopic," he understood why people were "up in arms."

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"The decision with the casting and the producers -- I wrangled with it, I was confused and shocked at what might come my way," Fiennes said, "and I knew the sensitivity, especially to Michael's fans and to Michael's family. It doesn't negate who he was."

The comedy also stars Eddie Marsan as Bob Dylan, Ben Chaplin as Cary Grant, Aidan Gillen as Dr. Leary, David Threlfall as Samuel Beckett, Game of Thrones' Iwan Rheon as Adolf Hitler and Rupert Grint as Hitler's friend.

Urban Myths debuts Jan. 19 on the U.K.'s Sky Arts. Watch the trailer below.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

By The Hollywood Reporter staff

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'Urban Myths' Trailer Offers First Look at Joseph Fiennes as Michael Jackson

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