# Michael Jackson and Kevin Smith...What coulda been...

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**Created:** [March 23, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-and-kevin-smith-what-coulda-been/235948 "2004-03-23T18:32:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![BizarroRonJeremy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@BizarroRonJeremy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BizarroRonJeremy)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-and-kevin-smith-what-coulda-been/235948/1 "2004-03-23T18:32:11Z")

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[http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040323/ap\_en\_ce/jackson\_movie](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040323/ap_en_ce/jackson_movie)

This is just plain wacky. I had to check today’s date to make sure it wasn’t April 1st.

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-and-kevin-smith-what-coulda-been/235948/2 "2004-03-23T18:56:19Z")

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Well, Smith did hook up with Prince once. Prince wanted him to direct a movie to be filmed at his own studio in Minneapolis, but there was no script, no ideas, no nothing for Smith to work with. Prince just basically wanted a documentary about himself that no one else will get to see except Prince.

but it was nothing like him turning into a car so a boy could “ride” him.

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**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-jackson-and-kevin-smith-what-coulda-been/235948/3 "2004-03-23T22:21:26Z")

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Just curious, but does anybody know who had the original idea for this movie? If it was a third party that came up with it (with multiple options on who to play the Jackson Car part), I guess it’s just an odd idea. If _Michael_ himself came up with it, that kind of creeps me out. Was this movie some dream project of Michael’s, so he could get off watching boys ride him like a car?