OMG: Kenny Ortega To Direct A Movie Version Of MJ’s ‘Thriller’?

By Michael Lopez

Maybe it’s just the season, but it seems like tons of Halloween stories are floating through Hollywood these days. One, in particular, that we’re extra excited about is the prospect of a full-length feature film built around the Michael Jackson song, “Thriller.”

Image : Thriller

No it won’t be two hours of Filipino prisoners prancing around. Deadline.com is reporting that frequent MJ collaborator Kenny Ortega plans to create a story around the ghouls and goblins featured in the original video. And he’s getting the guy who wrote The Hangover to help!

Budgeted at around $50 million, the Thriller Movie is still in the VERY early planning stages. All that has been revealed so far is that the Jackson estate is fully on board and so is the original writer of the song. They’re also talking about expanding the track’s “rap sequence” by horror legend Vincent Price.

For all of us who watched This Is It (also directed by Ortega), the rough 3D Thriller sequence they were planning for Michael’s concerts looked incredible. Our hope is that they flesh those ideas out a little more and maybe include a chainsaw-wielding Gloria Estefan just for fun.

Source: [Deadline]

What other songs would you like to see turned into full-length movies? Sound off in the comments or @MTV3!

Tags Halloween, Kenny Ortega, Música, michael jackson, Movies, Thriller