There was backlash about a year ago when it was announced that actor Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) would be portraying the late pop superstar Michael Jackson in a British project called Urban Myths.
Sky Arts released a 50-second trailer for Urban Myths, giving us the first look at Fiennes as Michael Jackson, as well as the other stories is the TV special.
The Michael Jackson part follows a road trip, shortly after the 9/11 attacks, that was taken by a trio of legends: Jackson (Fiennes), Marlon Brando (Brian Cox) and Elizabeth Taylor (Stockard Channing).
Urban Myths: A Brand New Collection of Comedies is actually, it appears, an anthology of comedy shorts, all featuring “true…ish stories” involving famous historical figures (hence the “urban myths”) in the vein of Drunk History.