Wow this is a crazy story. Apparently director Spike Lee is working on a film called "The Man Who Walked on The Moon" which spans 30 years (from 1979 to 2009) in Brooklyn and shows the impact Jackson's music and legacy had on several generations of Brooklyn citizens. The film is bookended by Brooklyn's reaction to the death of the icon on June 25, 2009. According to Bossip, a black gossip site, Spike is looking at Meyers to play the King of Pop. According to the film's producer Jon Kulik, "Spike got a call from Michael about playing Jackson in the same vein that Val Kilmer portrayed Elvis in True Romance, where you only see or glance him here and there in certain shots and archival footage. Spike was kind of blindsided because he never thought of using an actor to play him but he is very intrigued by Meyers' passion and ideas". Sound VERY interesting. Will he be playing the black version? White version? Both? Robert Downey Jr. went blackface in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards and got an Academy nomination. We'll see. Meyers got his first movie role at 18 years old as an extra in Spike Lee's 2002 film 25th Hour where he played a young Wall Street stock trader. 6 years later he starred in another Spike Lee joint as a soldier in the 2008 World War II epic Miracle At St. Anna. This would be his third time working with Spike. The film is scheduled to come out sometime in 2012.Tidbit: His character Jayden had a scene towards the end of the first season of The Best Tears with co-star Kayla Ochoa's Phoenix Van Pyrus character where he told her his two dream roles; a wheelchair bound person and Michael Jackson. Perhaps Meyers was speaking his own mind with those lines and this is his chance to live out that fantasy...
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