Taiki Waititi's Netflix Movie BUBBLES, About Michael Jackson's Chimp, Has Been Scrapped for Good

For some time now, Taika Waititi has been mulling over his stop-motion animated idea for a movie about the life of Michael Jackson through the eyes of his beloved pet chimp, Bubbles.

I love Taika Waititi, but this sounds unnecessary. Waititi was the first one to depart the project, which caused Netflix to pull the plug altogether as having Waititi attached was probably the only appealing thing about the movie. Here’s a previously released description of the story:

"A baby chimp is adopted by pop star Michael Jackson. Narrating his own story, Bubbles the Chimp details his life within The King of Pop’s inner circle through the scandals that later rocked Jackson’s life and eventually led to Bubbles’ release."

Waititi still has fond things to say about the Isaac Adamson written script, as he was quoted recently as saying:

“That script has been around for a long time, and it’s a little bit stuck in the early stages of trying to figure out what it could be and what it would look like. It’s a fucking brilliant script, though. It’s so cool to look at the idea of telling a story like this through the eyes of a chimpanzee.”

I love that he has so much faith in this story. Would you have wanted to see this movie get made?

Source: Deadline