Who wrote the screenplay for the 2026 film Michael?

John Logan wrote the screenplay for the 2026 film Michael.

Logan is credited as the film's sole writer, adapting Michael Jackson's life for a musical biographical drama. The screenplay covers Jackson's early career with the Jackson 5, his rise as a solo performer, and the period leading to the Bad tour in the late 1980s.

The project was reported in November 2019 with Logan attached to write, years before Lionsgate announced the film. Its script changed during production: earlier versions reportedly included the 1993 child sexual-abuse allegations, but legal issues surrounding a settlement led to those references being removed and the third act being revised. Additional off-screen literary material was attributed to Kenya Barris and Peter Saji, while Logan retained the final writing credit.

That makes the answer different from the director question. Antoine Fuqua directed Michael, but Logan wrote the screenplay. Eric Roth, Peter Morgan, and Aaron Sorkin are prominent screenwriters, yet none is credited as the writer of this film.